If you’ve ever had surgery, you’ve probably wondered about how anesthesia works, or maybe even lied awake at night anxious about going under. If you’ve ever been there, I’m sure you remember: Right ...

In a New York Times article, Emery Neal Brown, MD, a professor of anesthesiology at Harvard Medical School and a practicing physician at Massachusetts General Hospital, answered questions about how ...

(WHTM) — I recently underwent a procedure requiring me to have local anesthesia placed in the area where the doctor was working. I felt nothing and it was wonderful not worrying about pain while the ...

October 16 is World Anesthesia Day, celebrating the 170th anniversary of the first successful demonstration of surgical anesthesia. Prior to then, surgery was really unpleasant, to put it mildly -- ...

General anesthesia makes you unconscious and pain-free during surgery, ensuring you don’t feel or remember anything while surgeons perform the procedure safely. General anesthesia is a procedure in ...

Anesthesia might be the greatest medical advancement in human history (seriously, imagine having surgery without it), but there's still a shocking amount we don't understand about it. Law enforcement ...

Over 350 million surgeries are performed globally each year. For most of us, it's likely at some point in our lives we'll have to undergo a procedure that needs general anesthesia. Even though it is ...

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New research on anesthesia has yielded important results about the physical basis of consciousness in the brain. For decades, one of the most fundamental and vexing questions in neuroscience has been: ...

Anesthesia teams are under pressure as surgical demand rises, staffing tightens and financial strains mount. Yet the specialty is entering a pivotal year of change, and the decisions made now will ...

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