In adults undergoing hip fracture surgery, neuraxial anesthesia may lead to better outcomes than general anesthesia, with ...

Experts report that modern anesthesia supports calm, controlled recovery rather than dramatic or unusual reactions.

General anesthesia is an assistive procedure to a surgery that is done to induce a state of deep sleep and unconsciousness in the patient. It involves administering certain medications so the patient ...

A study of people who underwent surgery to treat epilepsy suggests the hippocampus may process words and speech when people ...

A Baylor College of Medicine study published in Nature reveals that the hippocampus can process and even predict language while patients are under general anesthesia. Using advanced neural probes ...

Charles J. Militana, MD, director of ambulatory surgery centers for North American Partners in Anesthesia and director of anesthesia for Dorothy and Alvin Schwartz Ambulatory Surgical Center, North ...

William Sieber was working in his garden. Wasn't he? He was sure he had been picking tomatoes just moments ago. Now he appeared to be in some kind of rehabilitation hospital. And weren't people ...

Surgery is considered for hyperthyroidism when treatments don’t work, a large goiter causes issues, or thyroid cancer is present. The procedure involves removing all or part of the thyroid gland, with ...

In adults over 70, exposure to general anesthesia and surgery is associated with a subtle decline in memory and thinking skills, according to new research. The study analyzed nearly 2,000 people and ...

Everyone is familiar with the throbbing, aching, pressurized pain that characterizes a headache. There are many different types of headache that can range in severity from mild to debilitating. They ...