It’s not just the fear of dying on the table that makes patients leery of going under anesthesia. It’s also the fear of waking up much sooner than intended — a paranoia perhaps made greater by the ...

Experts report that modern anesthesia supports calm, controlled recovery rather than dramatic or unusual reactions.

A study of people who underwent surgery to treat epilepsy suggests the hippocampus may process words and speech when people ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- Having surgery can be a frightening prospect, but imagine waking up during that surgery when you're not supposed to. As CBS2's Kristine Johnson explained, it happens and the ...

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, doctors began wondering if people ever became aware while under anesthesia. They started doing post-operative interviews to find out. Then they took it one step ...

Patients are more likely to experience unintended intraoperative awareness under general anesthesia with the bispectral index protocol than the end-tidal anesthetic-agent concentration, according to a ...

Baylor College of Medicine researchers have found that the human brain is capable of sophisticated language processing while ...

American Society of Anesthesiologists President John Zerwas, MD, wrote a letter to the editor about intraoperative awareness while under anesthesia that was published in the April issue of The ...

During surgery to remove a damaged right eye, Carol Weihrer woke up. "I was totally awake and aware," she says, "but completely unable to communicate or move in any way at all. …I heard the surgeon ...

More than 40 million patients receive anesthesia each year in North America. The risks associated with anesthesia have progressively decreased, but the mechanisms of action of anesthetic drugs remain ...

Anesthesia has come a long, long way since the advent of painless surgeries on the Civil War battle days when it was administered most often by the surgeon dipping cloth in liquid chloroform or ether ...

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 ...