A new technique allows researchers to view real-time, 3-D images of a patient’s brain as the patient undergoes anesthesia from propofol, according to a report by TIME. The findings from the new ...

Anesthesia leaders say a convergence of workforce instability, reimbursement pressure and cultural strain is pushing the specialty toward an inflection point. From staffing models and pay inequities ...

General anesthesia is a combination of medications that a person breathes through a mask or receives through a catheter in a vein to cause a person to fall asleep. In contrast, regional anesthesia is ...

Anesthesia affects receptors in the brain, which may cause side effects following surgery. However, evidence that anesthesia causes long-term memory loss is inconclusive. Some people may experience ...

It's the stuff of nightmares: regaining consciousness while under general anesthesia. But according to a group of doctors in Finland, it may be that we never fully lose consciousness under anesthesia.

“Anesthesia” is sincere but numbing. Heavy-handedness will do that to a film, even one that boasts talents of Sam Waterston, Glenn Close and Kristen Stewart, each in fine form. This small-scale indie ...

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

If your young child is facing ear tubes, an MRI or even extensive dental work, you've probably got a lot of concerns. One of them may be about whether the drugs used to render your child briefly ...

What happens to your brain as it slips into unconsciousness? A new technique allows researchers to view real-time 3-D images of a patient undergoing anesthesia using the drug propofol, and the ...