Instead of a deep sleep, general anesthesia is more like a reversible drug-induced coma. "General anesthesia is pharmacological coma, not sleep," said Dr. Nicholas Schiff of Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, who worked on the study with Dr. Emery Brown of Massachusetts General Hospital and Dr. Ralph Lydic of the University of Michigan. Their findings, published in … [Read more...] about General Anesthesia is Pharmacological Coma, not Sleep
Sleep Diagnosis and Therapy
Official Publication of the American Sleep and Breathing Academy
