Body Under General Anesthesia Tracks Closer to Coma than Sleep

Patients undergoing significant operations, such as major cardiac or transplant surgery, typically require general anesthesia. But putting patients to "sleep" might not be the best way to describe the process, argued the authors of a new review paper , published in the December 30 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine . [More]

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