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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New England Journal of Medicine
2012
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/69634 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2668-7819 |