The International Anesthesia Research Society has awarded Ansgar Brambrink, MD, PhD, $750,000 for anesthesia research — the largest single grant in the organization's 90-year history. Dr. Brambrink, a ...

A major finding by a doctor at the Harvard Medical School may revolutionize the administration of anesthetics to patients awaiting surgery. If current applications of the new discovery prove ...

CHICAGO (AP) — The largest study of its kind says anesthesia during early childhood surgery poses little risk for intelligence and academics later on. The results are in research on nearly 200,000 ...

A recent study published in PLoS ONE suggests that the brain may resist emerging from anesthesia, requiring more anesthetic for emergence from anesthesia than for submergence. According to the study, ...

With anesthetics properly given, very few patients wake up during surgery. However, new findings point to the possibility of a state of mind in which a patient is neither fully conscious nor ...