Greater patient safety in major lung surgery: World's largest study provides new insights

The Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine at the Carl Gustav Carus University Hospital in Dresden and the TU Dresden Faculty of Medicine has conducted the world's largest study on ...
eLife

Multiscale dynamical characterization of cortical brain states: from synchrony to asynchrony

We conclude that brain states are shaped by local circuit mechanisms, large-scale connectivity and neuromodulation. A unified multiscale theory of cortical dynamics is relevant not only for ...
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Are you game for awake surgery? The pros and cons

Awake surgery, or conscious surgery, is a procedure in which patients stay conscious during the operation with the help of regional or local anesthesia. Dr Ravi Kesari, internal medicine specialist at ...
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44 times medical staff had to step out because patients coming off anesthesia were too funny

There’s a strange kind of honesty that slips out when a person is drifting through anesthesia. In those hazy moments, fears, ...
The New York Times

The Case for Sleeping With Stuffed Animals as an Adult

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Anesthesia May Be a Portal to the Universe Inside You, Scientists Say. A ‘Smoking Gun’ Experiment Could Prove It.

Scientists are using anesthesia to probe the quantum roots of consciousness—and the research offers tantalizing evidence.
Frontiers

The influencing factors of postoperative sleep disorders in elderly patients undergoing hip replacement surgery under general anesthesia and the construction and validation of ...

1 Department of Surgical Anesthesiology, Changsha Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Changsha, Hunan Province, China 2 Department of Surgical Anesthesiology, Hunan Chest Hospital, Changsha, ...