Following the Royal College of Anaesthetists' World Anaesthesia Day statement on 16 October 2026, British Face Clinic has set out how ...

How general anaesthetics work is still not fully understood, but they are revealing clues about the nature of consciousness.

What we are, we are! Fear not, gentle reader, we are only thus beginning to give you a brief account of The Anaesthetic Revelation, a privately printed pamphlet which its author has sent us. What we ...

“When the dreadful steel was plunged into my breast… I began a scream that lasted unintermittingly during the whole time of the incision. I almost marvel that it rings not in my ears still, so ...

Have a shower before you go to the hospital. This is to lower the chance of you getting an infection. Follow the instructions if the hospital gave you special soap or wipes to use. nail varnish – you ...

A retrospective cohort of 158 adults found that preoperative gastric antral ultrasound was associated with lower rates of ...

Anaesthetics do more than numb pain, they also blunt memories. In 2014, a small study showed that after coming round from a general anaesthetic, people found it difficult to remember the emotional ...

Dying patients who are in pain are usually given an analgesic, such as morphine, to ease their final hours and days. And if an analgesic isn’t enough, they can be given a sedative – something to make ...

Researchers from around the U.K., led by the University of Oxford, have found that a new way of performing prostate biopsies is better at diagnosing prostate cancer, but takes longer to perform and is ...