Medically reviewed by David Hampton, MD Key Takeaways Nausea and vomiting are common after general anesthesia and can be treated with medicine.General anesthesia can make it hard to urinate because it ...

ZANZIBAR, Tanzania, April 3 (Xinhua) -- Inside an operating theater at Tanzania's Zanzibar Lumumba Regional Referral Hospital, Mwadini Maalim Simai, head of the anesthesiology department, leaned ...

Anesthesia prevents pain during procedures by numbing you or putting you into a sleep-like state. Though considered very safe, it can cause side effects like nausea, chills, aches, and sleepiness.

According to Germany’s Federal Health Reporting database, there were around 16 million surgeries in the country between 2010 and 2016. Data on whether general anesthesia or regional anesthesia was ...

After surgery under general anesthesia, older patients often experience a decline in cognitive function that can last for months or even years. This worsening brain function has been linked to deep ...

When patients undergo general anesthesia, doctors can choose among several drugs. Although each of these drugs acts on neurons in different ways, they all lead to the same result: a disruption of the ...

An international study has found around 1 in 10 participants under planned general anesthesia were able to respond to commands. Importantly no subjects remembered the commands after surgery.

ND4 variant (m.11232T>C) to severe neurologic injury after sevoflurane in patients with Venezuelan maternal ancestry, prompting international alerts.