2 Robert D. and Patricia E. Kern Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA Outcomes Adverse events like vomiting, agitation, hypoxia and apnoea.

1 Staff Specialist, Department of Anaesthesia, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woodville, South Australia, Australia 2 Senior Staff Specialist, Department of Anaesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, ...

Sleep-related laryngospasm can cause choking feelings and trouble breathing during sleep. It may be caused by heartburn, GERD, certain medicines, or viral infections. Talk to your healthcare provider ...

We undertook this Cochrane review to compare the safety of early removal of the laryngeal mask airway (LMA) versus late removal, in people undergoing general anaesthesia. The evidence is current to ...

As marijuana use becomes more commonplace, physicians are growing concerned about how it can lead to complications during surgery, WZZM 13 reported April 17. Here are five things to know from the ...

A new study revealed that Laryngeal Recalibration Therapy (LRT) guided by speech-language pathologists (SLPs) effectively reduces chronic laryngopharyngeal symptoms like cough, throat clearing, voice ...

A “FIT and healthy” teenager died during routine operation for an infected ear piercing, a coroner has heard. Holly Fairchild, 16, didn’t like a scar on her left ear caused by an infected cartilage ...

The terms “dry drowning” and “secondary drowning” have cropped up in the media in recent years. While “dry drowning” and “secondary drowning” have been used to describe very real, medical ailments ...

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A laryngospasm, or laryngeal spasm, is a muscle spasm in the vocal cords that causes sudden difficulty breathing and talking. A person may be able to stop the spasm at home. Some treatments focus on ...

Voltage-gated sodium channels are essential for excitability of skeletal muscle fibres and neurons. An increasing number of disabling or fatal paediatric neurological disorders linked to mutations of ...