Under general anesthesia, the conscious mind shuts off—or so we have long thought. But a new study of people in this state suggests the anesthetized brain still picks up sounds, words and even ...

Max Feinstein, MD, pulls back the curtain on anesthesia care ...

It’s further proof that even fairly complex neural processes are not the same as consciousness.

In the brain, specific electrical waves are associated with different states of consciousness. For instance, delta waves—also known as slow waves—are especially prevalent during deep sleep, as well as ...

People often describe anesthesia as something that puts a patient in a "deep sleep." An anesthesiologist enters the operating ...

General anesthesia can lead to some minor side effects, such as nausea or grogginess. When is general anesthesia used, and is it safe? General anesthesia is very safe. Even if you have significant ...

Anesthesia makes life-saving procedures as painless and stress-free as possible for the animals we love and care for. But not ...

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 ...

North American Partners in Anesthesia (NAPA), the nation's leading single-specialty anesthesia management company, today ...

Anesthesia has become one of the fastest-growing financial liabilities for ASCs amid what leaders call a structural mismatch between how ASCs operate and how anesthesia gets paid. The costliest ...

ASCs are taking on more cases, expanding service lines and pushing into higher-acuity procedures, but many are hemorrhaging money on the one department that touches every single case on the schedule.