How anesthesia affects your brain and body
Alyssa Pagano
Aug. 15, 2018, 2:52 PM
Millions of Americans undergo anesthesia each year. Since 1846, doctors have used a variety of drugs to make patients unconscious for surgery, but even though the medications have changed, there's one thing that remains the same— it works. But how exactly? We don't know every detail about what's going on when we administer anesthesia, but then again, we also don't know exactly how consciousness works either. What we do know is that anesthesia interrupts our brain's neural pathways so we don't feel pain. Anesthesiologist Jill Fong explains how it works. Following is a transcript of the video.
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-anesthesia-works-affects-brain-body-2018-8
