Unintended intraoperative awareness, which occurs when general anesthesia is not achieved or maintained, affects up to 1% of patients at high risk for this complication. We tested the hypothesis that ...

Accidental awareness under anesthesia (AAUA) has long been regarded as an uncommon complication in the operating room. Yet for the small percentage of patients who experience it, AAUA can leave ...

Hackensack (N.J.) University Medical Center recently opened its 530,000-sf Helena Theurer Pavilion, a nine-story surgical and intensive care tower designed by RSC Architects and Page. The county’s ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A 63-year-old man was referred to the Massachusetts General Hospital Neuroendocrine & Pituitary Tumor Clinical ...

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 ...

Doctors use general anesthesia during surgery to ensure a person is unconscious and cannot feel pain. Under general anesthesia, people are unable to feel pain (analgesic) and will be unconscious.

Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital has announced its neurosurgeons will begin using an intraoperative MRI to remove tumors more completely the first time and avoid repeat surgeries. The high-resolution, ...