Without anesthesia there are no operations. Even for minor operations the surgeons are using local anesthesia. Anesthesia changed the all natural history of medicine and it is still changing. However, there is a widening gap between the anesthesia providers and the millions of patients.
Patients are afraid of the anesthesia more than they are afraid from the operations.
Patients are signing the informed consent forms without being well informed regarding anesthesia. There is also a big difference in the state of anesthesia care among hospitals and countries. For the same operations patients are getting different kinds of anesthesia with different results. Many operations that could be done by regional anesthesia are still done by general anesthesia. In order to help patients by responding to their questions on anesthesia issues we have emailed several hundreds famous anesthesiologists from many countries.