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Going Under: Potential Side Effects of General Anesthesia

• Posted on Oct 15, 2018

Anesthetics, and in particular the inhaled ones used to put patients “under” for surgery, are considered one of the most important medical advances in history, essentially opening the door for the entire modern field of surgery. There are an estimated 46 million surgical procedures done each year in the US, and yet anesthetics — which ... Read More