Anesthesia choice during transcatheter aortic valve replacement is not associated with differences in mortality or most major complications within a year, except for heart failure.

General anesthetics have a more widespread effect on the brain than inducing sleep, suggests a new study that could lead to improved drugs for use in surgery. Share on Pinterest Researchers now ...

A hospital's overall experience with general anesthesia (GA) or conscious sedation (CS) may influence how anesthesia choice ...

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.

As you drift into unconsciousness before a surgery, general anesthetic drugs flowing through your blood are putting you to sleep by binding mainly to a protein in the brain called the γ-aminobutyric ...

Purpose: The characteristics of ideal intravenous (i.v.) and inhaled anesthetic agents; the rationale for inducing anesthesia with i.v. anesthetics (particularly propofol); therationale for inducing ...

PANAMA CITY, Fla. (WMBB) – Florida State University Panama City students are transitioning from the classroom into clinical ...

Researchers have found that general anesthesia induces unconsciousness by hijacking the neural circuitry that makes us fall sleep. They traced this neural circuitry back to a cluster of cells at the ...

General anesthesia is an assistive procedure to a surgery that is done to induce a state of deep sleep and unconsciousness in the patient. It involves administering certain medications so the patient ...

Researchers have moved one step closer to understanding how anesthesia drugs work by identifying a component of brain activity that could explain why we lose consciousness under the influence of the ...

Medical procedures used to be a scream-filled endurance test until doctors at this Boston institution learned to tame the pain of patients ...

A mother allergic to general anesthesia successfully underwent a kidney transplant while fully awake.