On6, 1846, Boston dentist William T.G. Morton administered ether to a patient at Massachusetts General Hospital and, for the ...

Choice of general anesthetic for major surgery can continue to be based on patient and clinician preference, according to the ...

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 ...

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

Anesthesia awareness is a rare but worrisome occurrence that can happen during a procedure where general anesthesia is used. The goal of general anesthesia is to put you into a form of reversible coma ...

Mayo Clinic Health System added about 150 colonoscopies a month in Eau Claire, Wis., by moving appropriate patients from anesthesia care to nurse-administered conscious sedation. The change started ...

Patients who wore noise-canceling headphones during minimally invasive gynecological surgery were significantly less likely ...