In the late 1990s and early 2000s, doctors began wondering if people ever became aware while under anesthesia. They started doing post-operative interviews to find out. Then they took it one step ...

It’s not just the fear of dying on the table that makes patients leery of going under anesthesia. It’s also the fear of waking up much sooner than intended — a paranoia perhaps made greater by the ...

Anesthesia works by using medications (anesthetics) to temporarily block pain signals from traveling along your nerves to your brain, or by numbing the brain itself to cause unconsciousness. The ...

Clinical studies have demonstrated that anesthesia awareness occurs in roughly one patient per thousand receiving general anesthesia. “ We realize that people may see the movie or related promotional ...

Brain structures which could predict an individual's predisposition to accidental awareness under anesthetic have been identified for the first time by neuroscientists in Trinity College Dublin. The ...

A large-scale study published in the New England Journal of Medicine has sparked a flurry of controversy among anesthesiologists. According to the findings, a commonly used device designed to prevent ...

Anesthesia has come a long, long way since the advent of painless surgeries on the Civil War battle days when it was administered most often by the surgeon dipping cloth in liquid chloroform or ether ...

Since the 19 th-century appearances of Drs. Frankenstein and Jekyll, films and literature have built up the doctor-horror category. The latest entry is a slight, amusingly hostile movie called Awake, ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- Having surgery can be a frightening prospect, but imagine waking up during that surgery when you're not supposed to. As CBS2's Kristine Johnson explained, it happens and the ...

Dec. 9 - I'm thinking to myself, there's no way in the world I'm going to survive this, I will die. This is it". Carol Weihrer of northern Virginia recalls her nightmare that unfolded 6 years ago.