A recent study published in the journal Nature Neuroscience reported that brain clearance is reduced during anesthesia and sleep. Sleep represents a state of vulnerable inactivity. Given the risks of ...

Every day, some 60,000 patients enter a state more like coma than sleep when they undergo general anesthesia — according to an unsettling study published Dec. 30 in the New England Journal of Medicine ...

Joseph Curley, MD, is employed by Upstate Anesthesia Services, P.C., and is chief of anesthesiology at St. Mary’s Hospital in Troy, N.Y. Upstate Anesthesia Services is managed by Somnia, Inc. Q: Why ...

General anesthesia is more akin to going into a “reversible coma” than going to sleep, a Boston anesthesiologist argues in the Dec. 30, 2010 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, according to ...

The U.S. market for anesthesia, respiratory and sleep management devices will reach $4.1 billion by 2015, according to a news release by iData Research, a leading global authority in medical device, ...

A study in Current Biology found anesthesia drugs not only turn off wakefulness, but also switch on important sleep circuits in the brain, according to U.S. News and World Report. Though humans have ...

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA, October 8, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- iData Research’s latest market report finds the U.S. anesthesia, respiratory, and sleep ...

Anesthesiology resident Max Feinstein, MD, discusses patients' dreams while under anesthesia. Following is a transcript of this video; note that errors are possible. Feinstein: If an anesthesiologist ...

Just as there is a true science behind every medical procedure, there is a science behind specifying the air- flow and silicon pressure sensors used in complex medical devices that assist in the ...