Cesarian Sections: Anesthesia and Outcomes
A cesarian section is the most common surgery performed worldwide, and yet there is no standardized anesthetic technique2. Older studies looking at general anesthesia vs. local anesthesia for cesarian sections (C-sections) have found that in aggregate, general...
Disease Monitoring through Wastewater
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, surveillance of infection rates nationwide has become a core focus of public health and research efforts. The rapid development of COVID-19 tests and the implementation of reporting systems at the state and federal levels have...
Research on Hallucinogens for Mental Health
Based on existing data, it is estimated that 1 in 5 people will experience a mental health disorder at some point in their lives, with about 17% of the global population being affected in any given 12-month period [1]. Research on psychedelics was stagnant for decades...
Intraoperative Seizures
Seizures are the clinical manifestation of abnormal electrical activity in the brain, characterized by excessive, synchronous oscillations in groups of neurons that overwhelm neural circuitry (1). The most common types in the surgical context include generalized...
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