Key result
Recent advances in intravenous anesthesia focus on modifying existing drugs to improve safety and pharmacokinetics, alongside the evolution of target-controlled infusion technologies.
This review summarizes recent pharmacological and technological advancements and failures in intravenous anesthesia delivery.
May inform safer IV anesthesia protocols; leaves open randomized validation of modified agents and TCI systems.
Anesthesiology, as a field, has made promising advances in the discovery of novel, safe, effective, and efficient methods to deliver care. This review explores refinement in the technology of soft drug development, unique anesthetic delivery systems, and recent drug and device failures.
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Mahmoud et al. (2018) conducted a review in Anesthesia. Intravenous anesthesia and anesthetics was evaluated. Recent advances in intravenous anesthesia focus on modifying existing drugs to improve safety and pharmacokinetics, alongside the evolution of target-controlled infusion technologies.
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