General anesthesia is medicine you get before surgeries ... The earliest stage lasts from when you first take the medication until you go to sleep. You’re calm but able to talk for a while.

The video game, in which the anesthesia mask is the game controller ... they’re more comfortable doing that when they go off to sleep if they can learn that in the preoperative area.” ...

Anesthesia prevents pain during procedures by numbing you or putting you into a sleep-like state ... you may also ask how these are going to be monitored. You are your best advocate to ask ...

In this video ... anesthesia for a patient who came to get his hernia repaired. "Dr. Le." Michael Minh Le, MD: "Hello. Hello." Feinstein: "Mr. Patient, how are you, sir? We're going to go ahead ...