Saturday, March 8, 2014

Types Of Anesthesia That Doctors Use During Surgery

By Krystal Branch


If you underwent any surgical procedure, you note that the process was not painful even if it took hours. This can be attributed to the different types of anesthesia used at the hospital. These are drugs administered into the body, or that particular part to numb the area so that you will not feel any sensation as the procedure is finished.

These procedures are not only used on humans but also on animals. The medicine stop sensations on that particular area where it has been injected. Once the patient has been treated with this medicine, they tend to sleep throughout the procedure. Once surgery or any other treatment procedure has been completed, the patient wake up from the deep sleep, and they remember feeling no pain. The anesthetic procedure that the doctor will depend on the area where they are going to be used as well as the time surgery is going not to mention the health history of the patient.

Local anesthetic drugs are administered to patients right at the very area where the surgical procedure is to be done. This is normally used particularly during extraction of a painful tooth. It is injected in the gums to kill the pain. These drugs are normally used on outpatients, and their effect normally lasts for a very short time. These drugs do not lead to the sleeping of the patient and the physician may administer it with sedative if need be.

General anesthetic drugs are used on patients particularly if the surgery is anticipated to take longer. These drugs make patients to sleep heavily so that they do not feel any sensation or even know what is going on. These drugs work by stopping the memory of patients from functioning during the time surgical procedure is being carried out. They usually administered as IV whereby patient inhale them as gases. They are suitable for application in surgeries where a patient may end up in very uncomfortable state.

In some cases, the general anesthetics cause side effects to the persons health, but this can be managed. The complications as a result of these drugs will also depend on the person lifestyle, body condition, and type of medications to use, smoking and taking of alcohol or blood thinning chemicals. There are rare complications instances that have been seen when using them like lung, heart attacks and stroke. It is not common for patients to die after administration of these drugs.

The third category is the regional drugs. As the name suggests, these are applied to bigger areas that needs an operation and where the local anesthetic medicines will not function well. This is further subdivided into subsections. It can be administered in the area surrounding your nerves. In most cases, it is preferred in areas around your limbs and face.

For those who are to undergo abdomen operations and c-section, the spinal block is used in the injection process. However, these are known to cause headache and spinal aches. Some patients who have been injected face respiration depressions.

The doctor should recommend the types of anesthesia which they know will work well and have little side effects on the patient. It is important to understand that the body reacts to them differently. Others will experience it in ways like feeling fatigue and others will lose their memory shortly.




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