Anesthetics can put you in a coma ? but that?s a good thing
Web edition : Friday, June 8th, 2012
It turns out that the dreamlike state that patients experience during surgery isn?t really sleep ? at least not the kind you do every night. Patients going into surgery are given a mixture of medicines called general anesthetics to keep them from feeling any pain. The medicines numb the entire body, including the brain. One of medicine?s greatest mysteries is how the drugs work together in the brain to create a pain-free state.
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