Anesthesia

General anesthesia is the most common type of anesthetic performed at Children's Hospital Boston. There are several different ways to start the anesthetic, a process referred to as "induction of anesthesia.
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Anesthesia: Loss of feeling or awareness. A general anesthetic puts the person to sleep. A local anesthetic causes loss of feeling in a part of the body such as a tooth or an area of skin without affecting consciousness.
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Anesthesia, local
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Local or regional anesthesia involves the injection or application of an anesthetic drug to a specific area of the body, as opposed to the entire body and brain as occurs during general anesthesia.
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Anesthesia: Safe for people with asthma?
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Anesthesia performed with general anesthetics occurs in four stages which may or may not be observable because they can occur very rapidly: ...
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HEMIANESTHESIA - Loss of sensation on one side of the body.
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Anesthesia, prolonged bed rest with few changes in position, shallow breathing, and underlying lung diseases are risk factors for atelectasis.
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Anesthesia, prolonged bed rest with few changes in position and shallow breathing, and underlying lung diseases are risk factors for atelectasis.
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Anesthesia
Most cataract surgery is now done using a topical anesthetic (eyedrops) or a local anesthetic.
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Anesthesia: A substance that prevents pain from being felt, given before an operation.
Anus: The opening of the rectum where solid waste leaves the body.
Bladder: The muscular bag in the lower abdomen where urine is stored.
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Local anesthesia may not numb the area quite enough and some minor discomfort may be felt when the cuts are made. Also, in rare cases, people have an allergic reaction to the drug used in this type of anesthesia.
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Local anesthesia helps to make the patient more comfortable.
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local anesthesia (an-es-THEE-zha)
Drugs that cause a temporary loss of feeling in one part of the body. The patient remains awake but has no feeling in the part of the body treated with the anesthetic.
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Meduck anesthesia monitor Device measures the depth of anesthesia via the sympathetic nervous system with the use of noninvasive sensors; not yet FDA approved. Mfg: Meduck Technologies, div. of MedSearch Inc. Source: Business Wire - 12/04/98.
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General anesthesia usually is reserved for emergency Caesarean sections. If general anesthesia is used, the woman receives anesthetic medication through an IV.
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Anesthetic/Anesthesia: Medication injected along a nerve pathway to deaden pain.
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Reaction to anesthesia
Excessive loss of blood
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Digital block anesthesia is used when reducing dislocations, making the procedure less uncomfortable. Your doctor will apply gentle pressure and traction to the finger, stabilizing the joint in relation to the rest of the hand.
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Because local anesthesia can cause complications in infant circumcisions, it is generally not used.
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Paracentesis Removing fluid from the abdomen using local anesthesia and needle and syringe. Pathological fracture A break in a bone usually caused by cancer or some disease condition.
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Lung resection is performed under general anesthesia, meaning the person is put to sleep with medication. To perform a lung resection, the surgeon makes an incision in the chest.
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While I certainly do not equate epidurals ("consciousness without sensation") with twilight sleep ("sensation without consciousness"), nor do I think that chemical analgesia, anesthesia, ...
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Surgeries, complete with audio commentary by the physicians involved, show patients important information they need to know before going into the operating room and under anesthesia.
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An agent used to produce anesthesia.
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A thin sac caused by a weakened area in the walls of blood vessels or the heart. As an aneurysm increases in size, the sac tends to become thinner, and the risk of its breaking becomes greater.
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Most techniques are major surgery (with small incisions) in a real operating room with general anesthesia.
Complications of the surgery are uncommon but not rare.
Reversal of the operation is difficult, expensive and rarely covered by insurance.
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The surgery is done while the patient is unconscious and pain-free (using general anesthesia). A small incision is made in the right lower quadrant of the abdomen and the appendix is removed.
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Other factors include poor circulation, high fever or other acute illness, surgery, radiation (X-ray therapy), medicinal drugs, anesthesia, drastic reducing diets, stress (depletes B vitamins), poor diet, skin disease, sudden weight loss, ...
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A team approach in preparing a person for surgery and home recovery that involves both a surgeon and an anesthesiologist (a medical doctor who specializes in administering anesthesia medications so the patient feels no pain and does not remember the ...
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Laser treatments (e.g., CO2 laser cautery) can be used to treat plantar warts. Laser treatment is performed in a podiatrist's office or an outpatient surgery facility using local anesthesia.
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Education - The Foundation awards scholarships to qualified and deserving student nurse-midwives and supports the development of educational opportunities such as the Domestic Violence program and the Summit on Epidural Anesthesia in Birth.
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Probes or other instruments can thus be introduced through the same opening. In this way, a number of surgical procedures can be performed without the need for a large surgical incision. Most patients receive general anesthesia during the procedure.
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