Anashesia: Is The Anesthetic Safe?
Why not be allowed to eat and drink before an operation?
If there is food or drink in the stomach, the patient may vomit or regurgitate under anesthesia. This vomiting can get into the lungs and as the body is sedated by anesthesia, it loses its ability to expel by coughing. This can cause serious lung damage. Generally not allowed to eat in the six hours before surgery, although in some cases can drink clear liquids, primarily water, up to two hours earlier.
What happens to the dental caps or loose teeth?
At the onset of anesthesia is often necessary to insert a tube in his throat to aid breathing. The instrument used for this can easily damage teeth loose covers, so the anesthesiologist asked if there in order to take precautions to avoid it. The same problem exists with dentures must be removed to avoid interfering with breathing.Is the anesthetic safe?
Anesthetics are almost completely safe, but every operation carries a very slight risk. A recent poll in the UK showed that for every million of anesthesia practice occurs about five deaths. Patients with poor health are at greater risk than those who are healthy.
What is a premedication?
While waiting for surgery, patients are given a treatment called Premedication to feel slightly drowsy and stop being nervous. It may not even remember being taken to surgery or been anesthetized.
Where and how a patient is anesthetized?
The patient is injected with anesthesia usually in the hand, and in the operating room. In some patients, usually children, are given an anesthetic cream to the skin in advance so that not even feel the injection. Others are given to breathe a gas mixture through a mask to fall asleep quickly. A parent is allowed to stay with your child until the anesthesia.
How and where the patient wakes up?
After surgery, the anesthesiologist stopped the administration of anesthesia and the patient is taken to a resuscitation area where there is specially trained nurses. The longer the operation, the longer it takes to awaken the patient. Once it is fully awake, he was taken to his room. Sometimes patients regain consciousness in the operating room once the operation has finished, without this entailing any risk.
How do patients feel when they wake up?
They often feel cold and slightly confusing. They may feel pain or nausea, but these symptoms can be treated when the anesthesiologist visits patients to check that everything is in order.
What happens after surgery?
Recovery depends on the type of intervention. After minor surgery, the patient is encouraged to get up as soon as possible and generally be allowed to eat and drink a few hours later.
credit to: Dr. Gordon F. N. Smith, Dr. Carlos Alberto Hernández Araque
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