by Dr. Edwin Perez | Oct 26, 2016 | Anesthesiology
This article from NPR begins: “Sleep is not the state you’re going in, nor would it be the state in which someone could perform an operation on you,” explains Dr. Emery Brown. “What we need to do in order to be able to operate on you — to...
by Dr. Edwin Perez | Jul 12, 2016 | Anesthesiology
In my last blog post, I began an exploration of the anesthetic practices that existed in early human history. The human body has never been averse to pain, and we as a people, have been searching for ways to satiate the hurt of injury since the beginning of time. We...