A French medical team was recently successful in using hypnosedation during a series of brain surgeries.
“An important advantage of hypnosedation is that it allows the patient to remain awake throughout surgery,” the research team said in a press release. “This avoids the need to awaken the patient in the middle of standard ‘asleep-awake-asleep’ anesthesia — which can be especially challenging in patients with high-grade gliomas.”
(Excerpt from article by Sarah Sloat for inverse.com)