Generally, a spinal anaesthesia is given to an expectant mom when she is wheeled into the OT (operating theatre) for a caesarean surgery. A general anaesthesia is usually avoided. However, there are ...

December 29, 2010 — Despite what anesthesiologists may tell surgery patients, the brain under general anesthesia is not "asleep," it is placed in a reversible drug-induced coma, according to 3 ...

Even though doctors have been using general anesthesia for nearly 200 years, they haven’t really understood the details of ...

Anaesthesia is a controlled and reversible state of loss of sensation, which may either be with or without a loss of consciousness, which may be induced to allow surgical or diagnostic procedures.

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The waiting list for a child to receive an MRI scan under a general anaesethetic at the children's hospital in Crumlin is now so long that it effectively means there is no service available, the ...

The risk of waking from a general anaesthetic while under the surgeon's knife is extremely small - about one in 15,000 - research reveals. Investigators surveyed 82% of the UK's consultant ...

Under the harsh lights of an operating theatre in the Indian capital, Delhi, a woman lies motionless as surgeons prepare to remove her gallbladder. She is under general anaesthesia: unconscious, ...