Body Based Anesthetic Procedures

Sometimes the anaesthetist may order that a patient’s normal everyday medications be withheld the day of surgery. This is to ensure that the effect of any sedatives, tranquillisers, anticholinergics or antihistamines for surgery aren’t affected by the patient’s usual medication (Berman, Kozier and Erb, 2012). These surgery medications must be given at the scheduled time or when notified by the operating room to do

As with most trauma patients, this patient should be considered a to have a full stomach. Therefore, the prudent approach for the anesthetist would be to plan for a rapid sequence induction, using a short-acting muscle relaxant such as succinylcholine. The patient’s clinical picture indicates that there is still some occult bleeding and she remains hypotensive despite resuscitation. Therefore, versed, propofol, and large amounts of inhalational agent should be avoided. Small doses of versed can worsen hypotension. Inhalational agent such as Desflurane or Sevoflurane should be kept to less than 1 MAC. Opioids, ketamine and etomidate in decreased doses are better choices when attempting to optimize intubating conditions. According to Barash (2013),

Background: Propofol is a widely used intravenous anesthetic drug. One of its side effects is pain during injection. We investigate the effects of intravenous ondansetron, lidocaine, and their combination on pain reduction of intravenous propofol.

Wall has suggested that the rationale of use of regional anaesthesia to prevent bombardment of the central nervous system during surgery lies in avoidance of spinal cord hyper excitability and in reduction of postoperative pain(9).

Everyday, anesthetists provide anesthesia to neurosurgical patients because, in order to maintain neurological functions, it is vital to assess the effect of intravenous anesthetics during neurosurgical procedures, as well as the speed of recovery. This has led to an ongoing to debate of which anesthetic technique is best for these surgeries. Total intravenous anesthesia (TIVA) is arguably the best anesthetic technique for neurosurgical procedures because propfol does not affect cerebral auto-regulation and only mildly effects intracranial pressure. Opiolds are shown to have minimal effects on cerebral blood flow.

The procedures manifested the diligence and swiftness required in performing anesthesia-related management. Moreover, the techniques were essential in revising physiological disturbances and maintaining pharmaceutical intervention throughout operations. Additionally, communication with pre-operative patients and opportunities to alleviate their concerns provided confidence in the power of anesthesia. As for anesthesiologists, their skills to quickly gain confidence of patients during brief pre-operative checkups, relieve patients’ anxiety, and promptly respond to hemodynamic variations in anesthetized patients were nothing short of inspiring. Working in the Surgical and Medical ICUs, PACU, Emergency Department, and on the Psychiatric Consultation-Liaison Service exposed me to a variety of patients in grave conditions and the need to closely monitor patients in a high state of readiness to address their fluctuating

Anesthesia which is commonly used during medical operations once made patients uncomfortable and had serious risks. 2. But new drugs and procedures that have developed in recent years allow patients under anesthesia to be comfortable and much safer. 3. Twenty years ago any patient undergoing anesthesia would have to had to stay overnight in a hospital probably feeling sick and very confused. 4. Today many patients can have general anesthesia which renders them completely unconscious and still go home the same day. 5. Another form of anesthesia monitored anesthesia, or conscious seduction allows the patient to be awake while feeling sleepy with no pain. 6. A surgeon may also suggest regional or local anesthesia which numbs only a specific part

For all those who have had intensive surgery, the experience of general anesthesia is a familiar one. One minute they’re being told to count to ten; and... boom! the surgery is over. They may have gone on to describe the experience to their friends, saying that they were “put them to sleep”. This is not true. In fact they were as awake as ever, but before anesthesia is discussed, it must be understood how the brain works.

Also known as “general anesthesia”, this is the strongest form of sedative an individual can receive, and results in a partial or complete state of unconsciousness. Nothing is felt throughout the procedure, and it very difficult to wake up the patient until the medication has worn off.

This historical review article describes how the various elements of anesthesiology were discovered and how entrepreneurs and physicians of the past two centuries have utilized them. The founder of modern anesthesia is discussed, William T.G. Morton (1819-1868).  As a Boston Dentist, Dr. Morton had been in the search for a better agent than what had been used by many dentists: nitrous oxide. Then, he and a surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital, John Collins Warren (1778-1856) made history on October 16, 1846 with the first successful surgical procedure performed with anesthesia.

In the last quarter of the football game the running back Greg breaks his leg. Accidents and injuries happen to everyone; Greg is no exception. As he is rushed to the hospital he thinks of how much pain he is in and how much pain he will be for the next few hours. But what he doesn’t know is how much pain he would be if the medic didn’t give him anesthesia for his broken leg. Greg also doesn’t realize that when his grandfather played football, there wasn’t any anesthesia and that the pain was excruciating. Before him surgery was agony. As you could probably guess I will discuss the history of anesthesia with you. First off anesthesia is medicine dedicated to the relief of pain and total care of the surgical patient before and after surgery. The creation of anesthesia was a turning point in history,

Ever since the approval of anesthetics in common medicine, massive leaps of medical development has been

The patients were assessed in the Pre –anaesthetic clinic. Data collected was entered in a pre-structured questionnaire.

Over hundreds of years, the subsequent physical ailment has improved considerably from progress in regional methods using each small to a large alternating local anesthetic. Although the important results of local anesthetics, the likelihood of systemic toxicity is linked to these drugs because of a constant downward spiral starting from the beginning of the clinical anesthetic. A large amount of local anesthetic extracellular fluid concentration could be due to the gradual span of expertise in medicine, heart and brain problems with certainly damaging effects. It’s believed that local anesthetic toxicity very rare with seven to twenty for every ten thousand peripheral nerve blocks and just about four cases per ten thousand injections. Even

General anaesthesia is needed for certain surgical procedures, which cannot be performed under regional or local anaesthesia, and can be performed either by inhalation volatile anaesthetics or injectable of non-volatile anaesthetics methods (Hall and Clark 1991). Historically, injectable or intravenous agents regarded as being particularly useful for either the induction of anaesthesia to be continued by an inhalation technique or for anaesthesia of short duration.