One of the core features of “going under” is amnesia for the anesthetized period. Research has shown that anesthetics cause anterograde amnesia in humans but retrograde amnesia in rodents [1-6]. Animal models of anesthesia-induced amnesia generally employ both operant...
Many orthopedic procedures and conditions are associated with severe pain, and unfortunately, are quite common in the US and worldwide (3). The first line pain management therapy is often opioids (3). However, due to the public health ramifications of opioid...
Opioid use and abuse is a major public health problem that affected more than 10 million people in the United States in the past year.1 The Department of Health and Human Services declared opioid misuse a public health emergency in 2017, which spurred a national wide...
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues infecting thousands of people daily in the United States, healthcare facilities face staff shortages that threatens their ability to treat critical patients [1]. Decreases in the numbers of nurses and other essential staff, such as...
The burden of wounds is hefty across the United States: in 2018, a retrospective study of Medicare beneficiaries revealed that approximately 8.2 million beneficiaries suffered from infectious and non-infectious wounds in 2014 (1). Wound-associated scars – especially...
The opioid epidemic continues to ravage the United States, with the number of drug overdose deaths increasing by 5% from 2018 to 2019 alone and quadrupling since 1999 1. As such, alternative forms of pain medication and pain management protocols are a pressing need,...
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