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 | Aug 20, 2016 | Anesthesiology
As you may know, general anesthesia causes the patient to temporarily lose sensation and consciousness, and local anesthesia causes the loss of sensation in a specific area. General anesthesia is a a bit more intense on the body than its localized counterpart, and has...
