Anesthesia was in its infancy when the American Civil War began in 1861. The sheer number of casualties gave surgeons on both sides the opportunity to gain experience with the first two anesthetic ...

Unlike the anesthetists of yesteryears, who utilized a single agent like ether or chloroform alone for anesthesia, the present day anesthetists use different drugs for specific effects. This helps ...

Anesthesia was a major medical breakthrough, allowing us to lose consciousness during surgery and other painful procedures. Trouble is, we’re not entirely sure how it works. But now we’re getting ...

Every year, some 21 million Americans undergo a general anesthetic. During recent minor surgery, I became one of the roughly 26,000 Americans a year who experience “anesthetic awareness” during ...

The Master of Science in Anesthesia Program at Case Western Reserve University began in 1970, the second anesthesia program of its kind in the nation. The program originally awarded a baccalaureate ...

The International Anesthesia Research Society has launched a $750,000 grant, the largest single grant offered by the society in its 90-year history, according to a release. The Frontiers in Anesthesia ...

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama – The Civil War was by the far the bloodiest in American history, with one recent estimate putting the number of dead as high as 750,000. And for the many wounded, the field ...

2700 BC Shen Nung the second Chinese emperor tested the effects of 300 drugs on himself and explained the narcotic properties of the Kemp plant. 1350 BC The soporific and aphrodisiac properties of the ...