The most important demonstration in medical history was about to begin. The date: October 16, 1846. The setting: the ...

When you go under, your brain doesn’t just sleep.

Tones, oddball sounds and words can spark brain cell responses, hinting at nuanced processing without consciousness.

For many surgical patients, going under general anesthesia can be almost as scary as going under the knife. But research ...

Nestled in the core of the brain is the hippocampus, a little curve of tissue central to memory and learning. It serves as a ...

A new study suggests anesthesiologists may be able to safely increase the likelihood that patients dream during surgery—and ...

Mothers who receive neuraxial anesthesia during cesarean delivery have a lower risk for postpartum depression within 1 year than those who receive general anesthesia, a new study shows.

When sick patients need major surgeries, their survival depends on the competence of their doctors, including not only the surgeons who perform their operations, but also the anesthesiologists who ...

One day in the nineteen-eighties, a woman went to the hospital for cancer surgery. The procedure was a success, and all of the cancer was removed. In the weeks afterward, though, she felt that ...

Anesthesia providers are caught between rising compensation expectations and a payer environment that keeps narrowing what they can collect. For ASCs, the math is getting harder to ignore. Here are 10 ...

A cost that barely existed for most ASCs five years ago is now one of the industry’s fastest-growing line items. The share of centers paying anesthesia stipends jumped from 28% to 44% in a single year ...