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What is anesthesia?

Anesthesia is defined generically by a series of drugs that temporarily reduce feelings, or eliminated, so that it can perform surgery or other procedures that would otherwise be painful.

There are two types of anesthesia:

- General: the patient is asleep.

- Local: in which the patient is awake, sleeping only part of the body on which to operate.

The anesthesia-induced sleep is not the same as the ordinary or natural sleep, but a form of temporary unconsciousness carefully monitored by the anesthesiologist by administering the correct amount of anesthesia for each type of operation and patient.

Some operations combine a local anesthetic, such as cord (or spinal) or epidural with drugs to numb the patient. The anesthesiologist will discuss this in detail before surgery.

What does the anesthesiologist?

The anesthesiologist performing the patient’s history and studied with him the various possibilities before the operation. During surgery, the patient remains at all times and make sure you are comfortable and safe. This includes eliminating the pain, replacing body fluids and measure and monitor all vital functions such as heart rate, blood pressure and cerebral and renal functions. This process continues after surgery, the anesthesiologist decides when the treatment of pain and postoperative nausea and recommend the best time to eat or drink again.

credit to: Dr. Gordon F. N. Smith, Dr. Carlos Alberto Hernández Araque

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