Gastric motility is coordinated, in part, by underlying electrical activity known as slow waves. In the normal stomach, slow waves initiate from a dominant pacemaker site located on the upper corpus ...

Inhaled isoflurane demonstrated noninferior sedation efficacy compared with intravenous midazolam in critically ill children aged 3-17 years on mechanical ventilation, while also lowering opioid ...

In conventional radiation therapy, it is well understood that molecular oxygen acts as a radiosensitizer, as described by the oxygen fixation hypothesis and oxygen enhancement ratio (OER) 1. This ...

Not many drugs are as widely used yet poorly understood as anesthetics. “We’ve used them for over a century, but nobody understands how they work,” says Alex Proekt, an anesthesiologist and ...