People Are Just Realising Anaesthesia Doesn't Actually Send You 'To Sleep'

The last time I was at the dentist (four fillings ― I blame my baking problem), I remember thinking to myself, “how was I bored while people were drilling into my teeth?”

Local anaesthesia (the type that numbers your gums during dental work) binds to sodium channels in your nerve cells which stops them from transmitting impulses, I later learned through amazed online searches.

But to be honest, I’d always thought of general anaesthesia ― “going to sleep” ― as local anaesthesia’s cruder cousin. It simply knocked you out, I reasoned.

That was until I saw a video from anesthesiologist Dr Anthony Kaveh.

In a recent YouTube Short, he........

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