General anesthesia makes you unconscious and pain-free during surgery, ensuring you don’t feel or remember anything while surgeons perform the procedure safely. General anesthesia is a procedure in ...

Older adults who avoid surgery because they fear general anesthesia will cause thinking declines need not worry, researchers report. A study of more than 1,000 patients who had heart surgery at four ...

Colorado has joined 15 other states in allowing certified registered nurse anesthetists to administer anesthesia without physician supervision, according to a Huffington Post report. The decision was ...

Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear announced Friday that the state will exempt hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers from the federal requirement that certified nurse anesthetists must be supervised by a ...

In the wake of heightened attention on certified registered nurse anesthetist (CRNA) scope-of-practice in California, the state's Department of Public Health has penned a letter to general acute care ...