Here are five points:
1. Two early incidents of hypnosis use in place of anesthesia occurred in 1864 and 1957.
2. Ilyess Zemmoura, MD, of Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Tours in France, and colleagues have been conducting “awake” operations on brain cancer patients since 2011.
3. In a typical brain surgery, the patient will be put to sleep at the beginning of the operation prior to the skull being opened, then woken up in the middle to ensure responses are normal, before being put back to sleep again. This is a process known as AAA — asleep-awake-asleep.
4. According to Ars Technica, Dr. Zemmoura and other researchers detailed the hypnosis process in 48 patients. From 2011 to 2015, 37 of the 48 patients underwent brain surgery using hypnosis sedation, six of whom were unable to enter a trance at the time of the surgery and were switched to AAA sedation.
5. The Journal of the National Cancer Institute estimated the use of hypnosis could save both time and up to $338 per procedure.
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