You will go to the hospital 60 minutes prior to your scheduled surgery. You will check in and be brought to an area where you will change. A nurse will go over your medical history with you and start ...

Two new studies published in Anaesthesia (the journal of the Association of Anaesthetists) analyzing pain and other factors connected with day surgery in the UK show that around 1 in 8 patients having ...

Older patients who received anesthesia with etomidate had no higher risk of major complications after elective abdominal surgery compared to propofol, a randomized trial found. Among 1,917 such ...

Mark Schoenfeld, MD, a board-certified anesthesiologist with Columbia Anesthesia Associates who practices at Ambulatory Surgery Center of Union County (N.J.).says that he often forgoes using the ...

It was 1846, when a young man lay on an operating table as doctors were ready to perform a surgery to remove a tumor from his neck. Then came a strange-smelling vapor. It was mix of ether and oil, and ...