Doctors are investigating whether a simple prompt can make surgery more pleasant—and perhaps open the door to a new approach ...

A medical explanation of how patients continue breathing and are monitored during anesthesia procedures ...

The operating room is perhaps the last place most people expect to have a nice dream. Yet a new study suggests doctors may be ...

The ASC industry has been expanding on several fronts: more procedures are moving out of the hospital and into ASCs, patients increasingly desire outpatient treatments, and the demand for surgical ...

Mothers who receive neuraxial anesthesia during cesarean delivery have a lower risk for postpartum depression within 1 year than those who receive general anesthesia, a new study shows.

Researchers are trying to figure out the mechanisms behind anesthesia. In doing so, they hope to develop better drugs used in the process. Share on Pinterest People undergo anesthesia all the time ...

In the Revolutionary War, more American troops died of disease than in combat. But the injured faced gruesome surgeries with ...

The state of sedation, analgesia, amnesia and muscle paralysis is called general anesthesia. In other words, general anesthesia is an induced, reversible and controlled loss of consciousness. This ...

A simple observation of numbness from coca leaves led to a medical revolution. Scientists isolated cocaine, revealing its ...

Eight states have no anesthesia residency program, which means ASCs operating in those markets have no local pipeline and no structural fix on the horizon. Here are 10 more things to know about the ...

Twenty-six students form the inaugural class of Nevada’s first anesthesiologist assistant program, born from legislation ...