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Risks with general anaesthesia

General anaesthesia redefined surgery and medicine, but over a century later it still carries significant risks.

  • Too much sedation can lead to neurocognitive disorders and may even shorten lifespan;
  • Too little can lead to traumatic and painful wakefulness during surgery.

Generally speaking, anaesthetic drugs render people unconscious by changing how parts of the brain communicate. But scientists still don’t fully understand why.

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