We Finally Know How Anesthesia Works

Published on October 6, 2020
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Captions provided by CCTubes – Captioning the Internet! Even though doctors have been using general anesthesia for nearly 200 years, they haven’t really understood the details of how it temporarily shuts down your brain — until now.

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Sources:
https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMra0808281
https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/007410.htm
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