The drug Diprivan, known by its generic name Propofol, is administered intravenously in operating rooms as a general anesthetic.

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The general anesthetic has the effect of making patients feel well-rested when they wake up from it, said Dr. Hector Vila, chairman of the Ambulatory Surgery Committee for the American Society of Anesthesiologists.

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You do not go under a general anesthetic and, at the same time, if you then decide to proceed here, it's just really an incision in the skin under the shoulder here and the implantation of this device.

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