General Anesthesia, Sleep, and Coma

Authors: Emery N. Brown, Ralph Lydic, Nicholas D. Schiff - New England Journal of Medicine, NEJM 2010 cited by 1,336

This review discusses the clinical and neurophysiological features of general anesthesia and their relationships to sleep and coma, focusing on the neural mechanisms of unconsciousness induced by selected intravenous anesthetic drugs.