Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The age of anesthesia began in 1846, when a man named Edward Abbott ...

Would you pay two mechanics with equivalent skills to both work on your car if one of them could do the job alone? Obviously not, yet that’s the kind of unnecessary cost you’re likely to pay if you’re ...

General anesthesia is medicine you get before surgeries that require you to be in a deep sleep-like state. It is given in stages – just before the surgery begins and then throughout the surgery to ...

Every year, millions of patients receive general anaesthesia for surgery or diagnostic procedures, and there is a growing concern that anaesthetic drugs might exert long-term effects on the CNS, ...