What Does Anesthesia Do to Your Brain?
Scientists know that anesthesia drugs are really good at knocking you out. What they don't know is how. ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters -- we couldn't make...
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I don’t mean to alarm anyone, but we don’t really know exactly how general anesthesia works. We do know THAT it works, and that it’s relatively safe. But scientists are still trying to figure out how all these different chemicals switch out the lights in your brain. Anesthesia is a state where you’re insensitive to pain, and doctors use it so that when they need to get to your heart or kidneys or whatever, they can turn something invasive and traumatic into a peaceful nap. General anesthesia is the kind that knocks you out completely -- as opposed to local anesthesia, which just numbs a part of your body for a while, or twilight sedation, where you’re technically conscious but won’t remember anything that happened. Usually, general anesthesia i...
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I don’t mean to alarm anyone, but we don’t really know exactly how general anesthesia works. We do know THAT it works, and that it’s relatively safe. But scientists are still trying to figure out how all these different chemicals switch out the lights in your brain. Anesthesia is a state where you’re insensitive to pain, and doctors use it so that when they need to get to your heart or kidneys or whatever, they can turn something invasive and traumatic into a peaceful nap. General anesthesia is the kind that knocks you out completely -- as opposed to local anesthesia, which just numbs a part of your body for a while, or twilight sedation, where you’re technically conscious but won’t remember anything that happened. Usually, general anesthesia i...
