Contents:
- Medical Video: Anesthesia sedation: What to expect
- Get to know anesthesia and its various types
- When is the patient's total, local and spinal anesthesia needed?
Medical Video: Anesthesia sedation: What to expect
Before the surgery is done, patients will usually be sedated first. You need to know that there are various types of anesthesia, such as total, local, and spinal anesthesia. Every injection of anesthesia is used at different times. Are you curious when is total, local, or spinal anesthesia injected into the patient? Consider the following review.
Get to know anesthesia and its various types
Actually, the meaning of anesthesia is loss of sensation. In the world of health, this is a way to control pain during the surgery using anesthesia.
In general, the way anesthetics works is to turn off nerve signals in certain areas of the body that cause a person to become unconscious and experience no pain. After the effect has run out, the nerve signal will return to active and you will regain consciousness.
There are various types of anesthesia, but the most commonly used are local, total, and spinal anesthesia. The following is an explanation of the type of anesthesia, such as:
- Local anesthesia can kill a small portion of nerve tissue in the body which will be surgically removed later.
- Regional anesthesia can kill most of the body, but it still lies only in certain parts and still makes the patient aware. Sometimes additional medication is needed so that the patient feels relaxed and lost consciousness. One example of this type of anesthesia is spinal and epidural anesthesia.
- This general anesthesia or general anesthesia makes the patient completely unconscious so he is not aware of what is happening and does not feel pain from the surgical process. This type of anesthesia can be given by injecting into a vein or inhaling.
The use of the type of anesthesia in patients is adjusted to the health procedures performed, age, and patient choice. For example in young children, they tend to not be quiet so they need general anesthesia so as not to interfere with the operation. Likewise patients who undergo surgical procedures are difficult and time consuming, using total anesthesia.
When is the patient's total, local and spinal anesthesia needed?
Local anesthesia will be given to patients who will undergo small surgeries that usually only cause minor injuries to the body. Patients given this type of anesthesia will remain conscious, only given sedatives to be more relaxed. This anesthesia prevents the nerves in the area under surgery from sending pain signals to the brain.
Usually, this anesthesia is given to patients who will perform several health procedures, such as:
- Care for teeth that are severely damaged, such as dental abscesses
- Skin biopsy
- Eliminating the growth of meat under the skin
- Remove moles or warts
- Pacemaker insertion
- Bone marrow biopsy or lumbar puncture
Then, for anesthesia or spinal anesthesia given to patients who need partial body surgery, the area is wider than with local anesthesia. Most are used for the operation of the waist area down so that the body part cannot be moved at the same time does not hurt.
Some procedures that require local anesthesia, such as:
- Surgery on the prostate, bladder or penis
- Surgery on the bones in the hips and legs
- Surgery in the uterus, ovary, and vagina
- Caesarean section
- Hernia surgery
Meanwhile, for total anesthesia for surgery that involves the body's vital functions, especially those that affect breathing, such as the abdomen and chest. In addition, this type of anesthesia is also used when performing surgeries that allow more blood to be released and a large area of the body. This anesthesia makes the patient lose consciousness, cannot remember, and feels pain during the surgical process.
Some procedures that require total anesthesia, such as:
- Organ transplant
- Cardiac surgery
- brain surgery
To find out what anesthesia procedure you will receive during surgery, you should ask and consult this with your doctor.
