Key result
There is currently no evidence that anesthetics alone can provide meaningful long-term neuroprotection against cerebral ischemia, as their protective effects appear transient.
Why the study?
Do anesthetics provide meaningful long-term neuroprotection against cerebral ischemia?
Population
Animal models and humans subjected to ischemic brain injury
Design
Editorial
Authors
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Reliance upon anesthetics to increase permanent tolerance of the human brain to an ischemic insult is unjustified based on existing scientific evidence, highlighting the need to study clinically relevant durations of ischemia.
Do anesthetics provide meaningful long-term neuroprotection against cerebral ischemia?
Reliance upon anesthetics to increase permanent tolerance of the human brain to an ischemic insult is unjustified based on existing scientific evidence, highlighting the need to study clinically relevant durations of ischemia.
David S. Warner (2004) conducted an editorial in Ischemic brain injury. Anesthetics was evaluated. There is currently no evidence that anesthetics alone can provide meaningful long-term neuroprotection against cerebral ischemia, as their protective effects appear transient.
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