A new paper published in Cell Reports, in which researchers work with primates, sheds some light on the question. Researchers ...

General anesthesia refers to the medical procedure anesthesiologists apply to induce paralysis, unconsciousness, and insensitivity to pain in patients. Although this sedating method has gone through a ...

For decades, one of the most fundamental and vexing questions in neuroscience has been: what is the physical basis of consciousness in the brain? Most researchers favor classical models, based on ...

Anesthesia is a type of medication that prevents people from feeling pain during or following surgery. There are four main categories of anesthesia: local, regional, general, and sedation. Share on ...

Marc Koch, MD, MBA, is an anesthesiologist and president and CEO of Somnia Anesthesia Services. Q: What are the major challenges ASCs face with regard to addressing their anesthesia needs? Dr. Marc ...

It's intuitive that anesthesia operates in the brain, but the standard protocol among anesthesiologists when monitoring and dosing patients during surgery is to rely on indirect signs of arousal like ...

Dr. Koch: ASC employment of anesthesia providers has several challenges. First, being able to gauge clinical quality and cost in front of local, regional and national supply and demand realities is an ...

Though automated anesthesia record systems increase the efficiency and accuracy of data collection, some aspects of the technology may make physicians “scratch their head in frustration,” Tony Mira, ...

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I still remember the very first day of learning dental anesthesia and injections in dental hygiene school. Do you remember that day as well? Even though it was more than 16 years ago, I vividly ...