Despite these limitations, researchers are taking advantage of a variety of methods to better discern
how anesthetic agents induce an anesthetic «state» at the molecular level.
Not exact matches
However, despite the fact that many
anesthetics have been used over a 150 - year period, little is known about
how these different compounds with no structural similarities behave as
anesthetic agents inducing loss of consciousness.
But even if clinicians might not yet have more delicate tools to dip patients into surgery - ready unconsciousness, Alkire notes, «understanding
how it works puts you in a position to do better
anesthetics eventually — if not with the
agents you have right now.»
Learn about the physiology of aging and
how the pharmacology of
anesthetic agents is changed in the aging patient.
At the 2015 ASPCA - Maddie's ® Shelter Medicine Conference at Cornell University, she gave attendees an overview of
how the physiology of aging affects
how senior pets react to
anesthetic agents.