On December 30, 2010, the New England Journal of Medicine published a paper titled "General anesthesia, sleep, and coma ". The article goes on to describe normal sleep as well as sleep induced by anesthesia at time of surgery. What researchers have found is that anesthesia-induced sleep actually is more like a deeply unconscious coma patient than someone sleeping. This actually makes sense to me... When a person sleeps, they can be aroused if noxious stimuli is introduced causing …
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