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 ...

General anesthesia is given during surgery to make people unconscious, eliminate pain during the procedure and prevent reflex movements. Many factors are known to impact how anesthesia affects a given ...

Christopher Troianos, MD, FASE, is a board-certified anesthesiologist and the Chair of Enterprise Anesthesiology at Cleveland Clinic. After earning his medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh ...

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

Over the past decade, hospital anesthesia costs have increased four- to six-fold. What was once a largely self-sustaining ...