Anesthesia keeps patients safely unconscious during surgery—though researchers are still learning exactly how it works. The age of anesthesia began in 1846, when a man named Edward Abbott came to ...

In a New York Times article, Emery Neal Brown, MD, a professor of anesthesiology at Harvard Medical School and a practicing physician at Massachusetts General Hospital, answered questions about how ...

Short interactive animation videos could help patients’ understanding of anesthesia and reduce anesthesiologists’ interview time, according to a study published in Anesthesia & Analgesia. The study, ...

Somnia Anesthesia has announced the release of a new video white paper focusing on the past, present and future of healthcare reform and the goal of value-based purchasing. The video also explains the ...

Even though doctors have been using general anesthesia for nearly 200 years, they haven’t really understood the details of how it temporarily shuts down your brain — until now. Hosted by: Michael ...

Anesthesia might be the greatest medical advancement in human history (seriously, imagine having surgery without it), but there's still a shocking amount we don't understand about it. Law enforcement ...

New research on anesthesia has yielded important results about the physical basis of consciousness in the brain. For decades, one of the most fundamental and vexing questions in neuroscience has been: ...

Over 350 million surgeries are performed globally each year. For most of us, it's likely at some point in our lives we'll have to undergo a procedure that needs general anesthesia. Even though it is ...

Anesthesia plays a vital role in modern medicine, allowing patients to undergo surgery and medical procedures pain-free and with minimal discomfort. Anesthesia is a medical treatment that blocks the ...