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.

and you go to sleep for surgery. Waking up during surgery is extremely rare-- only one to two out of every 10,000 medical procedures that occur with general anesthesia. What we call it is ...

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 the future, tracking changes in pupil size will help identify a state of wakefulness in sleep, anesthesia ... using deep learning algorithms, we can go beyond what is typically possible ...