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General anesthesia is a combination of medications that a person breathes through a mask or receives through a catheter in a vein to cause a person to fall asleep. In contrast, regional anesthesia is ...

Older patients who underwent hip fracture surgery with either regional anesthesia without sedation or general anesthesia ...

Each year, 40 million anesthetics are administered in the US—and consumers are realizing they have insurance coverage questions. A Cleveland Clinic anesthesiologist explains the costs involved, ...

It also does ... rate of anesthesia induction, clearance from the body, and adverse effects. There are three types of anesthesia: regional and local anesthesia, sedation, and general anesthesia.

Background: Awareness while under general anesthesia ... and sensory and autonomic blockade work together and determine the overall level of anesthesia, however, is not understood in detail ...