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 ...

If you’ve ever had surgery, you’ve probably wondered about how anesthesia works, or maybe even lied awake at night anxious about going under. If you’ve ever been there, I’m sure you remember: Right ...

(WHTM) — I recently underwent a procedure requiring me to have local anesthesia placed in the area where the doctor was working. I felt nothing and it was wonderful not worrying about pain while the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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: ...