In the realm of modern medicine, anaesthesia is a cornerstone that has transformed the surgical landscape. In India, where the burden of diseases requiring surgical intervention is substantial, the ...

Two new studies published in Anaesthesia analyzing pain and other factors connected with day surgery in the UK show that ...

World Anaesthesia Day is celebrated on October 16 in honour of W.T.G. Morton, who on this date 173 years ago gave the first successful official demonstration of ether as an anaesthetic. World ...

THE world of medicine is vast and complex. There are several specialities and sub-specialities, then ‘sub-sub-specialities’. Anaesthesiology, for example, is a speciality that spans across internal ...

COUNT slowly backwards from 10. Before you reach seven, you’ll be out like a light. Without anaesthesia, surgery would be, and once was, excruciating. Yet, as anyone who has been put under will attest ...

The last time I was at the dentist (four fillings ― I blame my baking problem), I remember thinking to myself, “how was I bored while people were drilling into my teeth?” Local anaesthesia (the type ...