Although sedatives are often administered before surgery, a randomized trial finds that among patients undergoing elective surgery under general anesthesia, receiving the sedative lorazepam before ...
Anesthesia choice during transcatheter aortic valve replacement is not associated with differences in mortality or most major complications within a year, except for heart failure.
Older adults undergoing hip fracture surgery experience similar incidences of cognitive decline whether they recieve regional or general anesthesia, with no significant difference in depression, ...
The AWAKE Program, which stands for Accelerated Surgery Without General Anesthesia in Kidney Transplantation, is a way for ...
When patients undergo general anesthesia, they lose consciousness—but does that also mean the brain stops responding to pain?