Types Of Anesthesia That Doctors Use During Surgery

By Krystal Branch


Advances in the medical field have seen surgical procedures to be painless contrary to what used to be the case some years back. There are many different types of anesthesia used in the health centers these days. Drugs for making treatment procedure painless are injected into the whole body or to a particular part of the body. These drugs make the make the area numb so that the patient will not have any sense of feeling as the procedure is undertaken.

It is used on both human and animal body. When it is injected, it immediately stops sensations in that small area or the whole body, depending on where it has been applied. These drugs make a patient to sleep during the whole process. After it is done, they will wake up but remember feeling no pain. The doctors select what to use depending on the area and the time the surgery is likely to take. They also check ones health history.

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.

When the surgery is taking long, the general anesthetic chemicals are used to help the patient sleep heavily. And while asleep, you cannot feel any sensation or know what is happening to you. It stops a person memory from working. Mostly it is administered as IV, whereby patients inhale them as gases. They are also applied for surgeries that need one to be in an 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.

There is also regional drugs. As the name suggests, these drugs are applied in larger areas, normally where local anesthetics will not work very well. These drugs are subdivided into other categories. They are good to be applied in areas around limbs and the face and where nerves are prevalent.

The spinal block are used on those that are scheduled for C-section and abdomen operations. This medication has side effects, which include the fact that they cause headaches and spinal aches. Other patients experience difficulties in respiration, especially those that are injected on the face.

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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