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The state should, I think, be called 'anesthesia.' This signifies insensibility - William Thomas Green Morton
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Banishing consciousness: the mystery of anaesthesia
The development of general anaesthesia has transformed surgery from a horrific ordeal into a gentle slumber. It is one of the commonest medical procedures in the world, yet we still don't know how the drugs work. Perhaps this isn't surprising: we still don't understand consciousness, so how can we comprehend its disappearance?
That is starting to change, however, with the development of new techniques for imaging the brain or recording its electrical activity during anaesthesia. "In the past five years there has been an explosion of studies, both in terms of consciousness, but also how anaesthetics might interrupt consciousness and what they teach us about it," says George…
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Call It a Reversible Coma, Not Sleep
Is anesthesia like a coma? It’s a reversible drug-induced coma, to simplify. As with a coma that’s the result of a brain injury, the patient is unconscious, insensitive to pain, cannot move or remember. However, with anesthesia, once the drugs wear off, the coma wears off.
Cochrane Library - Physician anaesthetists versus non-physician providers of anaesthesia for surgical patients
As none of the data were of sufficiently high quality and the studies presented inconsistent findings, we concluded that it was not possible to say whether there were any differences in care between medically qualified anaesthetists and nurse anaesthetists from the available evidence.
From Out of the Primordial Soup: A Brief History of Anaesthesia
Anaesthesia has been around in one form or another since around the 12th century and in some sense hundreds to thousands of years B.C. In the last 150 years however a revolution of anaesthesia has occurred with exponential growth in knowledge and substances available for use in anaesthesia making it one of the most advanced specialities in modern medicine...
Who Should Provide Anesthesia Care?
Can a highly trained nurse deliver anesthetics as well as a physician who has specialized in anesthesiology, or does the nurse require close medical supervision?
Banishing consciousness: the mystery of anaesthesia
The development of general anaesthesia has transformed surgery from a horrific ordeal into a gentle slumber. It is one of the commonest medical procedures in the world, yet we still don't know how the drugs work. Perhaps this isn't surprising: we still don't understand consciousness, so how can we comprehend its disappearance?
A Penned Point
The observations of Karen Sullivan Sibert, MD a Los Angeles anesthesiologist, writer, and mother.
Anesthesia Apps
We can’t live without our smartphones these days. There are several good apps I really like. The apps are particularly helpful for cases I don’t do on a regular basis. So this post is dedicated to the smart phone apps.
AnesthesiaZone.com
We are your online resource for locum tenens and permanent anesthesia jobs, specialty-specific healthcare news, and career information for anesthesiologists and CRNA professionals.
Anaesthesia UK
You will see from exploring AnaesthesiaUK that we are dedicated to using the potential of the Internet in providing medical information, education and communication to Anaesthetists in training. We feel that there are no sites dedicated to the FRCA examination.
Behind the Drape
This blog site has been long in the making since I started anesthesia school. I remember I googled and found a few blogs sites before and during I was in school where the bloggers shared their experiences as nurse anesthesia students.
FreshGasFlow.com
Anesthesia Fun.
Premier Anesthesia
Premier Anesthesia provides independent consulting services to over 30 hospitals annually leveraging expertise in anesthesia management and anesthesia leadership develpment to generate specific recommendations for improving financial and operational performance.
MedPage
Anesthesiology Information Center from MedPage Today is the only service for physicians that provides a clinical perspective on the breaking medical news that their patients are reading.
The Anesthesia Consultant
The Anesthesia Consultant is written by Richard Novak, MD, an Adjunct Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine at Stanford University.
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