This article is authored by Ankit Desai, founder & director, Children’s Anaesthesia Services.

A recent prospective randomized investigation found the breakthrough in geriatric anesthesia revealing that tailoring spinal ...

Anaesthesia is one of the most significant innovations in modern medicine. It allows patients to undergo surgery and other medical procedures without experiencing the trauma of pain. According to a ...

World Anaesthesia Day is observed on October 16 every year. The day strives to raise awareness about the importance of anaesthesia in medical treatments. It also supports anaesthesia providers around ...

Before the invention of anaesthesia, patients could only hope to counter the pain of surgery with more pain (stinging nettles were used to distract a patient) or herbal solutions, including the use of ...

A cesarean section or C-section is an abdominal surgery that is performed to deliver a baby via an incision made in the abdomen and womb. Sometimes this is the safest option in cases where a normal ...

We expect to feel no pain during surgery or at least to have no memory of the procedure. But it wasn't always so. Until the discovery of general anaesthesia in the middle of the 19th century, surgery ...

Facing surgery or a medical procedure can be intimidating, especially the idea of being 'put under.' Whether it's a routine dental extraction or a more complex operation, the use of anaesthesia raises ...

The use of electroencephalography (EEG)-based depth of anaesthesia monitors is recommended as an option during any type of general anaesthesia in patients considered at higher risk of adverse outcomes ...

Today the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists (WFSA) officially launched a landmark online resource tool mapping the total number of anaesthesia providers worldwide. A high number of ...