Spotlight on Anaesthesiology

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Despite the fact that man has conducted operations for at least five millennia, knowledge of how to extinguish consciousness and perform painless surgery - also known as anaesthesia - has only been around for nearly 170 years. Initially, the field only comprised acute pain relief, but today it encompasses the whole process before, during and after an operation. 

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Black out - anaesthesia that revolutionized medicine

Every year some 700,000 operations are performed in Sweden. Surgery has almost become a routine and it is now considered a matter of course to be operated on without experiencing either pain or discomfort from the surgery. 
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“I suddenly could not remember what I had read”

Although Bengt Malmsten from Halmstad was only 58 years old, his knee was so worn down from osteoarthritis that it no longer worked. He was anesthetised and a whole new knee replacement was operated in on his leg. The surgery went well, but he did not feel quite right afterwards.
Rolf Sandin

“One or two in a thousand wake during surgery”

The nightmare –  to wake up during surgery - is unfortunately a reality for one or two in a thousand of those anaesthetised. But it is possible to reduce the risk.
Anesthesiology and Intensive Care
14 Oct 2015 by Webbteamet.