Saturday, June 9, 2012

FOR KIDS: No ordinary zzz?s

Anesthetics can put you in a coma ? but that?s a good thing

Web edition : Friday, June 8th, 2012

It turns out that the dreamlike state that patients experience during surgery isn?t really sleep ? at least not the kind you do every night. Patients going into surgery are given a mixture of medicines called general anesthetics to keep them from feeling any pain. The medicines numb the entire body, including the brain. One of medicine?s greatest mysteries is how the drugs work together in the brain to create a pain-free state.

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Found in: Science News For Kids

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