An international study has found around 1 in 10 participants under planned general anesthesia were able to respond to commands. Importantly no subjects remembered the commands after surgery.

Trauma patients urgently requiring a breathing tube are more likely to survive if the tube is inserted before arriving at hospital compared to insertion afterwards, suggests a modeling study led by ...

We report the case of a mid-30s parturient who presented with sore throat and dysphagia a day after undergoing laparoscopic ...

A team of investigators retrospectively analyzed 346,861 anesthesia cases that involved attempted tracheal intubation from 2004 to 2013 at seven academic centers. Of these, 1427 patients (0.41%) had a ...

Esophageal intubation describes the unintended insertion of a breathing tube into the esophagus (the tube leading to the stomach) instead of the windpipe (trachea). If this is not promptly recognized ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A fresh look at past research suggests voice and throat problems are common in patients who've had a breathing tube placed during general anesthesia. Researchers pooled a ...

Large mediastinal masses increase the risks associated with general anesthesia. The most feared complication is airway collapse, which precludes ventilation despite intubation. There is limited ...