Today is World Anaesthesia Day 2025. Marking this historic date, Anaesthesiologist explains how anaesthesiologists, along ...

Eighty-five percent of patients who took part in a survey shortly after day surgery said that they had been anxious about receiving a general anesthetic. The top three concerns that made patients very ...

Anaesthesia has been one of the greatest gifts of science and use of general anaesthesia is a routine part of surgical operations at hospitals and medical facilities around the world. However precise ...

Around 1 in 10 surgery patients studied by researchers were still partly conscious during their procedure despite having been given general anesthesia, a study has suggested. The study involved 338 ...

Conscious sedation -- a type of anesthesia in which patients remain awake but are sleepy and pain-free -- is a safe and viable option to general anesthesia for people undergoing a minimally invasive ...

This retrospective study was conducted to evaluate the safety and complications profile of general anaesthesia (GA) compared with that of regional anaesthesia (RA) for BM harvesting (BMH). The study ...

Most caesarean births are carried out under spinal or epidural anaesthesia, ensuring you stay awake but free from pain. Yet, ...

Video shows a team of experts giving a giraffe a massage – as he underwent an operation to his face. Gilbert the giraffe ...

Michael Vagg does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

The Association of Private Hospitals Malaysia said patients can always request clinical justification for the use of general anaesthesia or local anaesthesia. (Bernama pic) The Association of Private ...