Are You Interested in General Anaesthetic?

General anaesthetic is where you're given drugs through a vein or gases through a mask. It's like a sort of coma that you're put into, and you're not aware of anything. And they can use that for something like mending a broken hip - which is what this new study was so the patient would be awake. About a fifth of these patients, whose average age was 78, were delirious for a short time after their operation. But that was irrespective of whether theyhad the spinal or the general,. surprisingly, there's no difference there. Well, thank you very much for joining us to day. Do come again.