Research Topic · Peer-Reviewed

General Anesthesia

General anesthesia is a drug-induced, reversible state of unconsciousness accompanied by amnesia, analgesia, and suppression of reflex responses to noxious stimulation, allowing surgery and invasive procedures to be performed safely. It is achieved with intravenous and inhalational agents that act on the central ner…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 28× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2997-2086 🗓 Reviewed June 2026

Overview

General anesthesia is a drug-induced, reversible state of unconsciousness accompanied by amnesia, analgesia, and suppression of reflex responses to noxious stimulation, allowing surgery and invasive procedures to be performed safely. It is achieved with intravenous and inhalational agents that act on the central nervous system to depress arousal and sensory processing, and it requires continuous management of the airway, ventilation, hemodynamics, and depth of anesthesia. Practice integrates preoperative evaluation, induction, maintenance, and emergence, together with monitoring and prevention of perioperative complications and adverse events. General anesthesia is central to operative care across surgical disciplines, including obstetric and fetal procedures, cesarean delivery, and head and neck, sinonasal, ophthalmic, and orthopedic surgery, and its conduct must account for patient comorbidity and procedure-specific risk. Postoperative cognitive dysfunction, particularly in elderly patients, illustrates important and sometimes costly consequences of general anesthesia and major surgery, motivating strategies to mitigate neurocognitive and systemic effects. Considerations also extend to specialized and complex operations where physiological stability is critical. The journal publishes peer-reviewed research relevant to general anesthesia and perioperative medicine, including anesthetic management, surgical outcomes, and the obstetric, fetal, and surgical contexts in which unconsciousness must be safely induced and maintained, supporting evidence-based anesthetic and perioperative care.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2017

The Evolution of Fetal Surgery

Knezevich MichelleCorresponding author
Division of Pediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI.
Exact topic Fetal Surgery doi:10.14302/issn.2997-2086.jfs-17-1663
2018

Lingual Cyct

Alhojaili NajiaCorresponding author
NICU Consultant
Exact topic Clinical Case Reports and Images doi:10.14302/issn.2641-5518.jcci-18-2504

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 28 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

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