General Anesthesia When people think of anesthesia, they usually mean anesthesia in both layman and technical language. There's also a list of commonly administered anesthetic drugs. Finally a few links to explanations about the potentially deadly complication of malignant hyperthermia and sites for people afraid of anesthesia and needles.
FreshGasFlow.com Anesthesia made easy. Can be understood by any medical student or anesthesia resident. You engineering types will like it too.
Pediatrics-Orthopedics.com Web site with comprehensive descriptions of anesthetics down to the cellular level is fascinating stuff for everyone from anesthesia attendings to biochemists.
Sleep What's the difference between anesthesia and sleep? Here's an entire of page links devoted to sleep, sleep disorders, and dreams.
Anesthetic Drugs Propofol A page devoted to just this timely topic. IV anesthetics A short, abbreviated list of intravenous drugs used in anesthesia, but a nice start for further research..
Inhalational agents How the term gaspasser or gasman became synonymous with anesthesiologists (though don't say it to the anesthesiologist).
Muscle relaxants This is how the surgeon can work on your delicate organs without you moving all over the operating room table causing him to slice an artery.
What is Needlephobia? A site from the British medical device maker Smith & Nephew that is trying to sell you a topical anesthetic but has good information about needlephobia..
Needle Phobia A thorough site with tons of information on this common fear. I guess needle phobia are two words in American English.
Another needle phobia page A rather long and difficult to read article about this fear. Beware, your eyes will water when you first try to read this page due to the black background and small type.