Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Having a major surgical procedure can be a scary proposition. First, there's the fear connected to the issue itself that prompted ...

Anesthesia keeps patients safely unconscious during surgery—though researchers are still learning exactly how it works. The age of anesthesia began in 1846, when a man named Edward Abbott came to ...

In broad estimates, anesthesia-related mortality today is often cited around one in 100,000 to one in 200,000 cases. And for healthy patients undergoing routine procedures, some sources like the ...

Research now shows that patients dream under anesthesia and report their dreams as uplifting, leading to more positive ...

SAN ANTONIO—In regard to the level of acute pain after noncardiac surgery, opioid-free anesthesia provides pain control comparable to that achieved with opioid-based anesthesia, according to a large ...