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Just the other day I had a patient ask me, “Can I wear my contact lenses during surgery and general anesthesia?” I smiled and asked her to kindly remove them for the procedure. She had come …

Patients will often ask, “Can I wear my dentures during my surgery and general anesthesia?” Every patient is unique. Removing dentures may feel like a minor inconvenience to some and a real personal, emotional issue …

So you are getting a blood patch for a spinal headache.  What is a blood patch? This is a procedure performed by anesthesiologists to help relieve a spinal headache, or a “post-dural puncture headache”. The spinal headache is classically …

Not too long ago, while on-call, I got a call that any anesthesiologist hopes to never get in the middle of the night. It was a call from the ER physician, telling me about a …

Are you a smoker who is about to have surgery and anesthesia? Are you worried about the effects of anesthesia in smokers? These answers and more to follow. The most obvious fact is that smoking …

We here at AnesthesiaMyths.com are very grateful for our growing community. As we take time to be with our families (my wife and I have been blessed with our first child– Katelyn), we would like to wish …

Every year, many people find themselves or their loved ones in need of anesthesia to get through their dental procedures. This may be due to extreme anxiety, a young patient that can’t hold still, or …

Rumors are swirling that Kate Middleton is considering hypno-birth as her strategy to deal with the challenges of labor pain. Briefly, hypno birth is a strategy to calm, relax, and self-hypnotize the body in an …

Are you about to have surgery? Getting anxious about your procedure? Here are the five questions to ask your anesthesiologist before “going under” anesthesia. What’s the anesthesia model you are using? Most people are unaware …