All About Anesthesia
Anesthesia is a medical marvel that allows patients to undergo surgeries without feeling pain. Learn about the types, its history, and the way it works.
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Anesthesia is a medical marvel that allows patients to undergo surgeries without feeling pain. Learn about the types, its history, and the way it works.
Cover of Pathways student magazine. NIGMS and Scholastic bring you Pathways: The Anesthesia Issue, which explores pain and the science behind anesthesia—the medical treatment that prevents patients from feeling pain during surgery and other procedures. Without anesthesia, many life-saving medical procedures would be impossible. Pathways, designed for students in grades 6 through 12, aims to …
Hippocampal neuron in culture. Dendrites are green, dendritic spines are red, and DNA in cell’s nucleus is blue. Credit: Shelley Halpain, University of California, San Diego. Anesthetic drugs are vital to modern medicine, allowing patients to undergo even the longest and most invasive surgeries without consciousness or pain. Unfortunately, studies have raised the concern that …
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