Before anaesthetic was developed, many patients died when operated up on. This was especially so in time of war, when many sailors and soldiers had to have a limb amputated while being help down and biting down on a leather or wooden plug.
general or local
Nitrous oxide
An Anesthesiologist administers an Anesthetic, for example when preparing a patient for a surgery.
it makes you fall asleep. usually in surgery the doctors do it and sometimes when you get your tooth pulled put.
It was used as an anaesthetic, to relieve pain during childbirth and surgery.
administration of medications to cause loss of sensation or feeling during surgery.
If flexible cysturethroscopy is done usually under a local anaesthetic, recovery will take about 15-30 minutes, and if done under a general anaesthetic a few hours.
An anesthetic triad is a combination of medications to control pain from before surgery to after surgery. It consists of pre-anesthetic medication, the anesthetics used during surgery and the post-operative medication.
It is advisable not to eat or drink for at least 5 to 6 hours before any surgery carried out under a general anaesthetic.
I had hand surgery recently as I never had drugs before I woke up very loving and very happy after the anaesthetic but not everyone is the same so be careful.
It doesn't hurt. Laser surgery is painless, and if you are having an operation to remove cataracts, you are given local anaesthetic eye drops to numb your eye.
If you have appendicitis, you'll normally need surgery to take out ... You'll have a general anaesthetic to make you sleep during surgery. ... 15 in 100 people get an infection after appendix surgery. With antibiotics, this drops to ... anything important, and you can live quite happily without it