Anesthesia Stocks List

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Anesthesia Stocks Recent News

Date Stock Title
Nov 1 BDX BDX Stock Declines Despite Launching BD IO Vascular Access System
Nov 1 OMCL Omnicell Q3 Earnings: Look At The Growth Segment
Nov 1 MD Pediatrix Medical Group, Inc. (MD) Q3 2024 Earnings Call Transcript
Nov 1 AVDL US court upholds Avadel’s narcolepsy drug approval amid exclusivity battle
Nov 1 OSIS OSIS or NVT: Which Is the Better Value Stock Right Now?
Nov 1 OMCL A Look At The Fair Value Of Omnicell, Inc. (NASDAQ:OMCL)
Nov 1 MLSS Milestone Scientific Expands Commercial Rollout of the CompuFlo® Epidural System with Esteemed Pain Management Physician Dr. Elbaz at Hudson Specialty Care
Nov 1 AVDL Loss-Making Avadel Pharmaceuticals plc (NASDAQ:AVDL) Expected To Breakeven In The Medium-Term
Nov 1 OSIS OSI Systems' (NASDAQ:OSIS) Earnings Are Of Questionable Quality
Nov 1 MD Pediatrix Medical Group Non-GAAP EPS of $0.44 beats by $0.07, revenue of $511.2M beats by $12.38M
Nov 1 MD Pediatrix Medical Group Reports Third Quarter Results
Oct 31 OMCL Omnicell cut to neutral by BofA, lack of visibility into growth cited
Oct 31 MD Pediatrix Medical Group Q3 2024 Earnings Preview
Oct 31 OMCL OMCL Stock Soars on Q3 Earnings & Revenue Beat, '24 EPS View Raised
Oct 31 BDX Becton Dickinson (BDX) Earnings Expected to Grow: Should You Buy?
Oct 31 OMCL Omnicell, Inc. (OMCL) Soars to 52-Week High, Time to Cash Out?
Oct 31 OSIS OSI Systems Receives $6 Million Order for Medical Sensors
Oct 31 AVDL Avadel soars after court rules in favor of FDA in Lumryz case with Jazz Pharma
Oct 31 OMCL Omnicell Inc (OMCL) Q3 2024 Earnings Call Highlights: Navigating Revenue Challenges with ...
Oct 31 AVDL Avadel Pharmaceuticals Announces Favorable Ruling in Administrative Procedure Act Litigation
Anesthesia

Anesthesia or anaesthesia (from Greek "without sensation") is a state of controlled, temporary loss of sensation or awareness that is induced for medical purposes. It may include analgesia (relief from or prevention of pain), paralysis (muscle relaxation), amnesia (loss of memory), or unconsciousness. A patient under the effects of anesthetic drugs is referred to as being anesthetized.
Anesthesia enables the painless performance of medical procedures that would otherwise cause severe or intolerable pain to an unanesthetized patient, or would otherwise be technically unfeasible. Three broad categories of anesthesia exist:

General anesthesia suppresses central nervous system activity and results in unconsciousness and total lack of sensation.
Sedation suppresses the central nervous system to a lesser degree, inhibiting both anxiety and creation of long-term memories without resulting in unconsciousness.
Regional and local anesthesia, which block transmission of nerve impulses from a specific part of the body. Depending on the situation, this may be used either on its own (in which case the patient remains conscious), or in combination with general anesthesia or sedation. Drugs can be targeted at peripheral nerves to anesthetize an isolated part of the body only, such as numbing a tooth for dental work or using a nerve block to inhibit sensation in an entire limb. Alternatively, epidural or spinal anesthesia can be performed in the region of the central nervous system itself, suppressing all incoming sensation from nerves outside the area of the block.In preparing for a medical procedure, the clinician chooses one or more drugs to achieve the types and degree of anesthesia characteristics appropriate for the type of procedure and the particular patient. The types of drugs used include general anesthetics, local anesthetics, hypnotics, sedatives, neuromuscular-blocking drugs, narcotics, and analgesics.
Risks during and following anesthesia are difficult to quantify, since many may be related to a variety of factors related to anesthesia itself, the nature of the procedure being performed and the patient's medical health. Examples of major risks include death, heart attack and pulmonary embolism whereas minor risks can include postoperative nausea and vomiting and hospital readmission. Of these factors, the person's health prior to the procedure(stratified by the ASA physical status classification system) has the greatest bearing on the probability of a complication occurring. Patients typically wake within minutes of anesthesia being terminated and regain their senses within hours.

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