Before 1846, surgery was a crude and brutal undertaking, typically performed on conscious patients lashed to their beds. Then ...

Mother-of-four Helen Comin, 50, died after she was wrongly given a potent painkiller after a boob implant procedure at a ...

Explores how inhalational anesthetics trigger general anesthesia through interaction with calcium channel RyR1.

A 9-year-old San Diego girl died hours after a dental surgery. The medical examiner ruled it accidental, saying the death was ...

Surgery is also called an operation. It is a procedure where a specialist doctor called a surgeon removes or repairs some of the tissue in your body. Normally you have an anaesthetic before you have ...

A WOMAN tragically died after being given too much local anaesthetic during hip surgery. Dr Rachel Gibson, 47, went into cardiac arrest and suffered irreversible brain damage following hip ...

Is there a different anesthetic I can request ... These are used during surgery to keep people calm and relaxed. Dear Abby: Am I unreasonable when I chide friend for not sharing info about ...

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