When you go under general anesthesia, you vanish. The surgeon speaks, monitors beep, nurses call out vitals, and you remember none of it. You wake up as if someone cut a hole in time. But according to ...

When you go under, your brain doesn’t just sleep.

Tones, oddball sounds and words can spark brain cell responses, hinting at nuanced processing without consciousness.

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 ...

“A lot of people think anesthesia is an off switch, and then you turn it back on later,” said Boris Heifets, MD, PhD, Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine at Stanford Medicine ...

The pre, intra and postoperative planning is patient specific, can be complex, and is known as the perioperative plan.

Regional anesthesia—typically with a spinal or epidural block—has long been favored for cesarean births due in part to concerns about the effects that general anesthesia may have on newborns during ...