Your brain on anesthesia: Could be more like a coma than you think

When you go under, your brain doesn’t just sleep.
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Penn State Health implements AI software to reduce time children spend under anesthesia

HERSHEY, Pa. — Penn State Health announced on Monday that the healthcare network had introduced a software designed to reduce the time that patients spend under anesthesia by speeding up MRI scans — ...
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Study eases concern over anesthesia, child brain development

A clinical trial published Sept. 9 in Anesthesiology found no evidence that brief exposure to inhaled anesthesia harms brain development in infants and young children. Researchers from Seoul National ...
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While patients lay unconscious under anesthesia, their brains kept decoding stories and preparing for what came next

Baylor College of Medicine researchers have found that the human brain is capable of sophisticated language processing while in an unconscious state from general anesthesia. The findings, published in ...
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Dreaming Under Anesthesia: Possible and Even Beneficial

“A lot of people think anesthesia is an off switch, and then you turn it back on later,” said Boris Heifets, MD, PhD, Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine at Stanford Medicine ...
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When Anesthesia Errors Lead to Brain Injuries: What You Need to Know

Every patient who undergoes surgery places tremendous trust in the medical team, including the anesthesiologist or CRNA. Anesthesia allows patients to undergo procedures without pain or awareness. It ...