Propofol, a short-acting, intravenous hypnotic agent was introduced in the 1980s to aid surgery centers in providing appropriate anesthesia for short procedures. The drug allows a patient to undergo a ...

In hospital operating rooms and intensive care units, propofol is a drug of choice, widely used to sedate patients for their comfort or render them fully unconscious for invasive procedures. Propofol ...

There are many drugs that anesthesiologists can use to induce unconsciousness in patients. Exactly how these drugs cause the brain to lose consciousness has been a longstanding question, but MIT ...

The general anesthetic propofol may hold the keys to developing new treatment strategies for epilepsy and other neurological disorders, according to a new study. The general anesthetic propofol may ...

Propofol, a drug commonly used for general anesthesia, induces unconsciousness by disrupting the brain's normal balance between stability and excitability. Propofol, a drug commonly used for general ...

The following comments are from Daniel Van Riper, MD, an anesthesiologist for Blair County Anesthesia in Altoona, Pa., in response to “Impact of the Propofol Shortage on Anesthesiologists: Q&A With ...

Researchers conducted a randomized controlled phase 3 trial across 29 medical centers in China between March and September 2024 to assess the efficacy and safety of remimazolam tosylate vs propofol ...

The general anaesthetic propofol could help treat the feeling of listlessness that frequently accompanies depression. People suffering from depression and other psychiatric disorders often lose ...