Talking Science
Anaesthesia – Switching Consciousness Off and On
24:43
Every day, in operating theatres all over Australia, people are deliberately, reversibly switched off, their pain, memory and movement suspended long enough for a surgeon to work, and then switched safely back on again. This episode explores the different kinds of anaesthesia, from numbing a single tooth to erasing consciousness entirely, what anaesthetic drugs actually do to nerve signalling,…