General anesthesia is supposed to switch us off, yet patients often report emerging from the void with the eerie sense that “no time passed at all.” A growing group of researchers now suspects that ...
Hormone Involved in Sleep-Wake Cycles Plays Key Role in Waking Up After Anesthesia Newswise — San Francisco, CA. (September 25, 2012) – A neuropeptide hormone called orexin-A—which plays an important ...
Newswise — Will reducing the volume of local anesthetic prevent the incidence of hemidiaphragmatic paresis (HDP) in patients receiving an ultrasound-guided supraclavicular block? Unfortunately, no, ...
Millions of surgical procedures performed each year would not be possible without the aid of general anesthesia, the miraculous medical ability to turn off consciousness in a reversible and ...
Anesthesia during a short surgery doesn’t harm a baby’s brain development, according to an experiment involving hundreds of infants in seven countries. While the study can’t answer broader safety ...