General Anesthesia More Like Coma Than Sleep

General Anesthesia More Like Coma Than Sleep
General anesthesia and coma appear to share important similarities said US researchers who concluded the brain isn’t “asleep” under general anesthesia, as surgery patients are often led to believe, but goes into a state that is more like a reversible coma. They hope their findings will lead to new approaches to general anesthesia and also improve the diagnosis and treatment of sleep …
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Southern Oaks to shut doors Jan. 10
The Twin Cities will lose its only state operated drug addiction treatment center early next month as part of state government’s privatization of its six remaining centers.
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Giants report: Strategy and personnel
Giants suffered in their last 73 minutes of football weren’t enough, this week New York is looking at its biggest injury report since before the bye week]]
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