Updated at: 1153 PST, Friday, December 31, 2010
 CHICAGO: Instead of a deep sleep, general anesthesia is more like a reversible drug-induced coma, US researchers said on Wednesday, in findings that could lead to better treatments for coma and better anesthesia.
"General anesthesia is pharmacological coma, not sleep," said Dr. Nicholas Schiff of Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, who worked on the study with Dr. Emery Brown of Massachusetts General Hospital and Dr. Ralph Lydic of the University of Michigan. |
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