Sleep and anesthesia: can we use a physiologic model to decrease risks of a medical intervention

authors:

avatar Ali Dabbagh ORCID 1 , * , avatar Samira Rajaei ORCID 2

Professor of Cardiac Anesthesia; Anesthesiology Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Immunology Dept. School of Medicine, TUMS, Tehran, Iran

how to cite: Dabbagh A, Rajaei S. Sleep and anesthesia: can we use a physiologic model to decrease risks of a medical intervention. J Cell Mol Anesth. 2017;2(2):e149720. https://doi.org/10.22037/jcma.v2i2.11689.

Abstract

Anesthesiology is one of the most important creations of the modern science, basically based on the anesthetic drugs; however, there are a few concerns regarding the effects of the anesthetic drugs. Would there be any progress in the current trend of anesthesiology, both clinically and basically. There would be a possibility to use the physiologic mechanisms of sleep to be incorporated into clinical practice instead of pharmacologic agents in order to decrease their unwanted effects.