General anesthesia is a medication you get before surgeries that requires you to be in a deep sleep-like state. It is given in stages – just before the surgery begins and then throughout the surgery ...

(YakobchukOlena/iStockphoto/Getty Images) Every day, thousands of people are put under general anesthesia as a routine part ...

There is a strange kind of trust involved in going under general anesthesia. One moment you are answering a nurse’s questions ...

A recent neuropsychological evaluation diagnosis impugned several controversial theories about anesthesia and cognitive decline. As a medicinal therapy to relieve pain and brain dysfunction, ...

When spinal stenosis or spondylolisthesis progresses to its end stage, spinal fusion, or lumbar interbody fusion, which firmly stabilizes the segments of the spine, is often unavoidable. However, most ...

An international study has found around 1 in 10 participants under planned general anesthesia were able to respond to commands. Importantly no subjects remembered the commands after surgery.

Anesthesiologists at Zhongshan Hospital have developed a detailed protocol that makes extended thymic tumor resection with ...