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Surgical Anesthesia

Surgical anaesthesia is the controlled, reversible suppression of sensation and, in its general form, of consciousness that allows operative procedures to be performed without pain or awareness. It is achieved with general anaesthesia, which combines hypnosis, analgesia, and muscle relaxation to render a patient unc…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 9 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 10× across the literature 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Surgical anaesthesia is the controlled, reversible suppression of sensation and, in its general form, of consciousness that allows operative procedures to be performed without pain or awareness. It is achieved with general anaesthesia, which combines hypnosis, analgesia, and muscle relaxation to render a patient unconscious and immobile, or with regional and local techniques that block sensation in a defined area while consciousness is preserved. Beyond abolishing pain, anaesthetic practice maintains physiological stability throughout surgery through continuous monitoring and management of the airway, breathing, circulation, and fluid balance, and it manages recovery afterwards. The development of safe, reliable anaesthesia is what made complex modern surgery possible. Research touching this area addresses perioperative care that supports the anaesthetized patient, including systematic review of restrictive versus liberal intravenous-fluid strategies in major abdominal surgery, and examines the biological effects of anaesthetic agents, showing that general anaesthetics can exert dual neuroprotective and neurotoxic actions on neural stem cells through mechanisms involving autophagy. Studies of adverse events after major head-and-neck surgery and of regional injection techniques reflect the surgical and analgesic contexts in which anaesthesia is delivered. Together these threads situate surgical anaesthesia within the management of pain, consciousness, and physiological homeostasis during operative care, alongside the pharmacology and safety of the agents employed.

Research published in this journal

9 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

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Curated from peer-reviewed research published in International Journal of Anesthesia.

Journal editorial board
John Bebawy · United States Pradipta Bhakta · Ireland Mainul Haque · United Kingdom

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