Anaesthesia

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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

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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

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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

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