Paralyzing drugs are commonly used during: Paralytics are used as part of general anesthesia to prevent movement during surgery. General anesthesia involves medications that put you to sleep and ...

Narrator: You're closer to being in a coma than being asleep. Anesthesia was first used during surgery in 1846. The drug provided at that time was ether. Now anesthesiologists more commonly use a ...

Spinal anesthesia is widely used to numb patients during surgery, but its effects sometimes wear off too soon.