For certain surgeries, staffing one anesthesiologist for three or four overlapping cases can increase complications, death.

A deep dive into logbooks from the father of a surgeon reveals what surgery on the battlefields of World War II was really like.

Innovative experiment demonstrates the resilience of the healthy human brain despite deep general anesthesia.

Improved outcomes in some patients could be due to a more complete reversal of the effects of muscle relaxants used during surgery.

Hesitation to put MS patients on the operating table, due to relapse risk, may have physicians delaying important surgeries unnecessarily.

New research reveals a need for better tools for catching severe infections in pregnant women. Simple early interventions are crucial, too.