A rare but potentially life-threatening inherited condition called malignant hyperthermia (MH) may strike surgical patients who receive common anesthesia drugs. Approximately one in 10,000 persons ...

General anesthesia is supposed to switch us off, yet patients often report emerging from the void with the eerie sense that “no time passed at all.” A growing group of researchers now suspects that ...

Anesthesiology resident Max Feinstein, MD, discusses his experience taking the anesthesia oral boards and gives tips to those about to take them. Following is a transcript of this video; note that ...

In broad estimates, anesthesia-related mortality today is often cited around one in 100,000 to one in 200,000 cases. And for healthy patients undergoing routine procedures, some sources like the ...