Coma and general anesthesia demonstrate important similarities

Coma and general anesthesia demonstrate important similarities
( New York- Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center/Weill Cornell Medical College ) The brain under general anesthesia isn’t “asleep” as surgery patients are often told — it is placed into a state that is a reversible coma, according to three neuroscientists who have published an extensive review of general anesthesia, sleep and coma, in the Dec. 30 issue of the New England Journal …
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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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