Joseph Curley, MD, is employed by Upstate Anesthesia Services, P.C., and is chief of anesthesiology at St. Mary’s Hospital in Troy, N.Y. Upstate Anesthesia Services is managed by Somnia, Inc. Q: Why ...

A recent study published in the journal Nature Neuroscience reported that brain clearance is reduced during anesthesia and sleep. Sleep represents a state of vulnerable inactivity. Given the risks of ...

A study in Current Biology found anesthesia drugs not only turn off wakefulness, but also switch on important sleep circuits in the brain, according to U.S. News and World Report. Though humans have ...

General anesthesia is more akin to going into a “reversible coma” than going to sleep, a Boston anesthesiologist argues in the Dec. 30, 2010 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, according to ...

GBI Research released a report on the anesthesia and respiratory device market to 2017 which classified sleep apnea diagnostic systems and portable anesthesia delivery machines as the fastest growing ...

Anesthesiology resident Max Feinstein, MD, discusses patients' dreams while under anesthesia. Following is a transcript of this video; note that errors are possible. Feinstein: If an anesthesiologist ...

In this video, pediatric anesthesiologist Max Feinstein, MD, talks to researchers at Stanford University. The team, led by Boris Heifets, MD, PhD, studies altered states of consciousness, including ...