Trained nurses in most critical care settings often administer propofol safely to patients who are intubated and ventilated. However, some practitioners have been lulled into a false sense of ...

Propofol is a drug that binds to GABA receptors in the brain, inhibiting neurons that have those receptors. Other anesthesia drugs act on different types of receptors, and the mechanism for how ...

A new German study has shown that the driving skills of patients sedated with propofol return to normal within 2 h of an endoscopic procedure. Patients were randomly allocated to undergo ...