Anesthesia: Sleep or Coma?

Is anesthesia more like sleep or a coma? Anesthesia it's actually more like a deep medical coma than sleep. When electroencephalograms, or brain scans, are compared in patients under anesthesia versus sleeping patients, there's actually less resemblance than a medical coma. YES, that means that when you're having surgery, you're actually put into a controlled, medical coma.

Fortunately, with modern medicine, that deep, medical coma can be very safe. However, the more prepared you are, in particular with your mindset, it's safer your anesthesia will be for surgery!Mental health matters so much for surgery and anesthesia in the operating room!