User:Stautges/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Anesthetic

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
As someone who will be going into anethesiology, i will be using many of the anesthetics mentioned in the linked article daily. I think there is room for expansion of the discussion of the agents as well as opportunities to provide more sources in those sections.

Evaluate the article
The lead section is well sourced and provides a moderate overview of the topic to be covered.

The local anesthetic section has a relatively long and informative discussion about local anethetics, though lacks sources to back most of it up. Additionally, in comparison to the rest of the article it does not have the agents in an easily-viewable list.

The general anesthetics section is visually appealing, and the inhaled anesthetics subsection is very informative and provides some of the history of these anesthetics. However, this section once again feels like it lacks some sources. The IV subsection again has some good information, but it feels like the paragraph should be separated out more (e.g. discuss benzodiazapines and barbiturates and then start a new paragraph).

The inclusion of IV opioid analgesic agents is valuable, and the variable anesthetic effects of them are mentioned. This and the heading on muscle relaxants feel like appropriate adjuvant treatments to anesthetics to be included in this article. That being said, it feels a little odd that only Muscle relaxants has an Adverse Effects subheading and none of the other sections do. Finally, the last paragraph about anesthesia awareness provides a lot of frightening but necessary information, but provides it without any sources.