General anesthesia, sleep and coma

In the United States, nearly 60,000 patients per day receive general anesthesia for surgery.1 General anesthesia is a drug-induced, reversible condition that includes specific behavioral and physiological traits — unconsciousness, amnesia, analgesia, and akinesia — with concomitant stability of the...

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Main Authors: Schiff, Nicholas D., Brown, Emery N., Lydic, Emily K.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: New England Journal of Medicine 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/69634
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2668-7819