Anaesthesia – Switching Consciousness Off and On
Every day, in operating theatres all over Australia, people are deliberately, reversibly switched off, their pain, memory and movement suspended long enough for a surgeon to work, and then switched safely back on again. This episode explores the different kinds of anaesthesia, from numbing a single tooth to erasing consciousness entirely, what anaesthetic drugs actually do to nerve signalling, and the surprisingly honest scientific fact that nobody yet fully understands how general anaesthesia achieves what it does.
You'll come away understanding the difference between local, regional and…
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