Anesthesia

...of nerve pathways.
General anesthesia affects the brain cells. Regional affects large bundle of nerves to a particular area of the body. Resulting in a loosing sensation, without affecting level of unconsciousness. Local anesthesia causes you to loose sensation in a specific area. Some drugs that produce general anesthesia in large amounts can be used to produce sedation or twilight sleep.
Regional Anesthesia is because a region of ...
...Local Anesthesia involves numbing a small area by injecting. This is thought o block nerve impulses.
Sedation can be given by injection or the mouth. This particularly useful for sedating children who do not like injections.
You may be faced with the possibility of surgery in the future, have you ever wonder why you are told not to eat anything for eight hours? This is because when you are being anesthetized, you lose the ability to ... more

In my training to be a nurse, part of our course work involved in anesthesia. At that time, I did not realise how many careers you can choose from. For those who want to make a career in being an anesthesiologist, it is a worthwhile career.
Here is some information I learnt, this helped me to understand some role in being anesthesiologist.
There are four basic type of anesthesia. General, regional, local and sedation. Each of these has an effect on a part of the nervous system, which results in numbing of nerve pathways.
General anesthesia affects the brain cells. Regional affects large bundle of nerves to a particular area of the body. Resulting in a loosing sensation, without affecting level of unconsciousness. Local anesthesia causes you to loose sensation in a specific area. Some drugs that produce general anesthesia in large amounts can be used to produce sedation or twilight sleep.
Regional Anesthesia is because a region of the body is anesthetized without making the person unconscious.
Local Anesthesia involves numbing a small area by injecting. This is thought o block nerve impulses.
Sedation can be given by injection or the mouth. This particularly useful for sedating children who do not like injections.
You may be faced with the possibility of surgery in the future, have you ever wonder why you are told not to eat anything for eight hours? This is because when you are being anesthetized, you lose the ability to protect your lung from inhaling something you are not to inhale. If you have food or liquids in your stomach they could come out into your mouth and inhaled into your lungs which cause serious lung damage.
As a rule in general anesthesia produce unconscious state and you are unaware of what is happening, you are immobile, free from any memory of the period of time you are under anesthetized and also pain free.
The anesthesiologist plays a very important role in preserving your life, before your surgery the anesthesiologist may ask several questions about your medical history. The anesthesiologist is very helpful and will answer any fears you may have such as side effects.
When you are given anesthetics it reaches the blood stream, the drug that affects the brain pass through other vital blood vessels and organs. That is why anesthesiologist has to continuously monitoring the heart rate, heart rhythm, respiratory rate, blood pressure, and oxygen saturation.
So whenever you have surgery spare a thought for the anesthetics, they really care for the patients before, during and after surgery.
Remember Anesthesia!
 

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