Joseph Curley, MD, is employed by Upstate Anesthesia Services, P.C., and is chief of anesthesiology at St. Mary’s Hospital in Troy, N.Y. Upstate Anesthesia Services is managed by Somnia, Inc. Q: Why ...

General anesthesia is more akin to going into a “reversible coma” than going to sleep, a Boston anesthesiologist argues in the Dec. 30, 2010 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, according to ...

Every day, some 60,000 patients enter a state more like coma than sleep when they undergo general anesthesia — according to an unsettling study published Dec. 30 in the New England Journal of Medicine ...

A study in Current Biology found anesthesia drugs not only turn off wakefulness, but also switch on important sleep circuits in the brain, according to U.S. News and World Report. Though humans have ...

In Oct. 2010 in San Diego, a group of anesthesiologists formed the Society of Anesthesia and Sleep Medicine, a group that aims to promote the cross-fertilization between anesthesiology and sleep ...