General anaesthesia induces unconsciousness for pain-free surgeries, altering brain communication to prevent awareness and ...

“Anaesthesia associates” with only two years of training are allowed to “bend the rules” by carrying out complex procedures normally reserved for doctors, the Telegraph can reveal.

World Anaesthesia Day is observed annually on October 16th to commemorate the first successful use of ether anaesthesia in surgery, which took place in 1846. The day celebrates the advances in ...

World Anaesthesia Day is observed annually on October 16, commemorating the first public demonstration of ether anaesthesia by Dr William T. G. Morton in 1846.

In the popular imagination, anaesthesia is often seen as a mysterious “sleep” — a quick drift into oblivion before waking up pain-free. Yet behind this seemingly magical transition lies a ...

General anaesthesia, in contrast, aims to do just that, creating an unresponsive drug-induced coma or controlled unconsciousness that is deeper and more detached from reality even than sleep, with ...

General anaesthesia, in contrast, aims to do just that, creating an unresponsive drug-induced coma or controlled unconsciousness that is deeper and more detached from reality even than sleep, with ...

Some epidemiological studies suggest associations between general anaesthesia and long-term cognitive dysfunction in children and the elderly, although these remain to be proven. Here, Vutskits ...

World Anaesthesia Day is celebrated on October 16 in honour of W.T.G. Morton, who on this date 173 years ago gave the first successful official demonstration of ether as an anaesthetic.