Have you ever wondered how patients endured pain during surgery in the old days? We are talking about days when anaesthesia ...

We expect to feel no pain during surgery or at least to have no memory of the procedure. But it wasn't always so. Until the discovery of general anaesthesia in the middle of the 19th century, surgery ...

The use of the anesthetic agents ether and chloroform was first described in the 1840s by American physicians Crawford Long, William Morton, William Edward Clarke and James Simpson, but anesthesia was ...

Anesthesia was a major medical breakthrough, allowing us to lose consciousness during surgery and other painful procedures. Trouble is, we’re not entirely sure how it works. But now we’re getting ...

The French refer to the emergence from general anaesthesia as “réanimation” - literally to restore consciousness. This is a crucial attribute - that consciousness will return following the desired ...

Every year, some 21 million Americans undergo a general anesthetic. During recent minor surgery, I became one of the roughly 26,000 Americans a year who experience “anesthetic awareness” during ...