Anaesthesia

Health & Medicine
Making surgery safe in Mongolia
Anaesthetists used to be considered non-essential in Mongolia’s health care system, but a collaboration with Australian specialists is reducing surgical mortality rates

Health & Medicine
Surgeons go green: Recycling general anaesthetic
The development of a new technology that captures potentially damaging anaesthetics could lead to recycling the cleanest, rarest and safest anaesthetic gases known to medicine

Health & Medicine
The milk of amnesia: A brief history of anaesthesia
Anaesthesia has come a long way from its origins in dentistry in 1840s America, but just how it works remains a medical mystery