Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The age of anesthesia began in 1846, when a man named Edward Abbott ...

Would you pay two mechanics with equivalent skills to both work on your car if one of them could do the job alone? Obviously not, yet that’s the kind of unnecessary cost you’re likely to pay if you’re ...

General anesthesia is medicine you get before surgeries that require you to be in a deep sleep-like state. It is given in stages – just before the surgery begins and then throughout the surgery to ...

Access to safe anaesthesia for essential surgery is a basic human right and should be available to all patients irrespective of their ability to pay. 5 billion of the world's 7 billion people do not ...