A healthy patient going under anesthesia now faces a risk of anesthesia-related death roughly 20 times lower than someone only a generation ago.

A hospital's overall experience with general anesthesia (GA) or conscious sedation (CS) may influence how anesthesia choice affects patient outcomes during mechanical thrombectomy, according to ...

A Yale-based anesthesiologist says pre-surgery is as important as post-surgery.

According to Germany’s Federal Health Reporting database, there were around 16 million surgeries in the country between 2010 and 2016. Data on whether general anesthesia or regional anesthesia was ...

There is a strange kind of trust involved in going under general anesthesia. One moment you are answering a nurse’s questions beneath bright operating room lights. Then, seemingly seconds later, ...

Baylor College of Medicine researchers have found that the human brain is capable of sophisticated language processing while in an unconscious state from general anesthesia. The findings, published in ...

PEC I and II nerve blocks enable breast cancer surgeries with deep sedation, avoiding general anesthesia's side effects like nausea and grogginess. Patients recover quickly, often resuming normal ...

For some, the pain can be overwhelming, even after the block, but this might be unnecessary, a new evidence review argues. General anesthesia appears to be safe for both mother and baby during a ...

UCLA researchers show for the first time that human brain assembloids can reproduce the hallmark electrical changes seen ...