General anesthesia, sleep and coma
In the United States, nearly 60,000 patients per day receive general anesthesia for surgery.1 General anesthesia is a drug-induced, reversible condition that includes specific behavioral and physiological traits - unconsciousness, amnesia, analgesia, and akinesia - with concomitant stability of the...
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New England Journal of Medicine,
2012-03-09T19:26:18Z.
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