The Mind Numbing Medicine
Curious Cases
Anisotists - Are You a Good Anesthetist?
Professor Irene Tracy is a professor of anesthetic neuroscience at Oxford University. She runs a little torture lab, and she stabbed an electrocuted and burnt Adam with chilies. The experiment involved putting people in little EEG caps,. like swimming hats with electrodes inside - as well as looking at their brain activity in a scanner. When they reached their own individualized maximum level of slow waves, we realized the brain had gone into what I call perceptual unawareness. It was sort of lights out. We're very excited about this as a potential new device that could really help anesthetist deliver in a more titrated way just the right amount of anesthetic.
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