valuable information regarding the recent developments in the field of anesthesia
General anesthesia is treatment with medications that induce a state of deep sleep and unconsciousness in the patient in order to be pain free during surgery.
Spinal anesthesia and epidural anesthesia are types of regional anesthesia in which when a drug is injected near the spinal cord, it numbs the whole area below the level of injection and thereby provides adequate pain relief for surgeries.
General anesthesia and surgery in healthy infants under the age of 1 year old could be associated with decreases in the amount of white matter in the brain.