Anesthesia works by using medications (anesthetics) to temporarily block pain signals from traveling along your nerves to your brain, or by numbing the brain itself to cause unconsciousness. The ...

One or two people out of 1,000 going into surgery can experience anesthesia awareness. It’s a brief moment when a person ...

General anesthesia leads to better functional outcomes than conscious sedation in stroke patients with large vessel occlusion ...

American Society of Anesthesiologists President John Zerwas, MD, wrote a letter to the editor about intraoperative awareness while under anesthesia that was published in the April issue of The ...

Patients are more likely to experience unintended intraoperative awareness under general anesthesia with the bispectral index protocol than the end-tidal anesthetic-agent concentration, according to a ...

Here are 10 recent studies on anesthesia quality issues, according to reports from various publications and organizations. 1. Regular training sessions could prevent anesthesia awareness. According to ...

The American Association of Nurse Anesthetists, American Society of Anesthesiologists, American Academy of Anesthesiologist Assistants and the Anesthesia Awareness Campaign, Inc., joined forces to ...

Dr Ashwani Kumar, Dr Updesh Kumar World Anesthesia Day is observed annually on October 16th to mark a transformative ...

Anesthesia doesn’t simply make you sleep — it temporarily disconnects the brain’s communication networks, silencing awareness ...

A new study reveals that sleep-like slow-wave brain activity can persist for years in surgically disconnected brain ...