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Boris D Heifets

@theborislab.bsky.social
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Anesthesiologist, neuroscientist, amateur psychiatrist. Mouse rave DJ. Legendary dancer.

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Boris D Heifets @theborislab.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
The protocol is straightforward and evidence based - verbal priming, EEG guidance, wake up on propofol, undisturbed emergence, and immediate interview. Undisturbed in an OR is... not easy. Not a coincidence that step pushes success from 69% --> 93%.
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Boris D Heifets @theborislab.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Why would we do this? For one, we were able to add a positive experience to an otherwise stressful surgical encounter. Many patients described the sleep quality in glowing terms -
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Boris D Heifets @theborislab.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
In ~500 patients, no *awareness* of the OR environment: disconnected consciousness. These experiences were overwhelmingly positive and often intense (or our 😍bedside manner?). Incredible effort by Harrison Chow MD and @pilsik.bsky.social PhD and our OR team. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41632715/
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Boris D Heifets @theborislab.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Anesthesia is just like dreamless sleep, right? RIGHT? Cover story @anesthesiology.bsky.social this month - we developed an operating room protocol to promote dreaming during emergence from anesthesia... under the best conditions we found that **93%** of patients had experiences
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Boris D Heifets @theborislab.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
The survey:
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