General anesthesia is a combination of medications that a person breathes through a mask or receives through a catheter in a vein to cause a person to fall asleep. In contrast, regional anesthesia is ...

Which receptors mediate anesthesia remains unclear ... for 60 seconds from an anesthetic breathing circuit by mask. [54] Twenty (74%) of 27 patients receiving desflurane and 11 (41%) of 27 ...