(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 ...

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 teenage boy went into surgery for a broken arm and emerged with brain damage. His mother was determined to figure out what had happened.

December 29, 2010 — Despite what anesthesiologists may tell surgery patients, the brain under general anesthesia is not "asleep," it is placed in a reversible drug-induced coma, according to 3 ...

Women who have general anesthesia during C-sections are significantly more likely to experience severe postpartum depression resulting in hospitalization, suicidal thoughts or self-harm, according to ...

Spinal anesthesia is one of the most dependable tools in modern operating rooms. A single injection of local anesthetic into the cerebrospinal fluid surrounding the spinal cord can render a patient ...

For patients with liver tumors, one of the most technically impressive weapons in the interventional radiology arsenal has long carried an inconvenient requirement: general anesthesia. CT-guided ...

The state of sedation, analgesia, amnesia and muscle paralysis is called general anesthesia. In other words, general anesthesia is an induced, reversible and controlled loss of consciousness. This ...