Surgery can be scary, especially when it involves general anesthesia.
But a new class of anesthetic drugs is getting patients out of the recovery room and back home faster. NewsChannel5 reports Tashona Turmade has cervical cancer and needed surgery. Just a few years ago she would have been hospitalized at least three days. But anesthesiologist Jeffrey Apfelbaum says Turmade will go home in just three hours, thanks to better surgical techniques and a new generation of anesthesia. That's because fast-acting anesthetic drugs are given right before surgery.