Anesthesia

ASA by RVG

There are three main categories of anesthesia, each having many forms and uses. They are:

- General
- Regional
- Local

In general anesthesia, you are unconscious and have no awareness or other sensations. There are a number of general anesthetic drugs - some are gases or vapors inhaled through a breathing mask or tube and others are medications introduced through a vein.

In regional anesthesia, your anesthesiologist makes an injection near a cluster of nerves to numb the area of your body that requires surgery. You may remain awake, or you may be given a sedative, either way you do not see or feel the actual surgery taking place. There are several kinds of regional anesthesia; the two most common are spinal anesthesia and epidural anesthesia.

In local anesthesia, the anesthetic drug is usually injected into the tissue to numb just the specific location of your body requiring minor surgery.



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anesthetist and medical personnel provide supplemental oxygen and monitor patients for vital signs and monitor their airways. Vital signs include an EKG (unless the patient is hooked up to a monitor), blood pressure, pulse rate, oxygen saturation

Facial bruising and swelling are fairly common after dental work. The reasons for bruising include the instruments used to extract the tooth, and the pulling and tugging that are involved with extraction.

General anesthetic alters the flexibility of cell membranes, effectively blocking the ability of neurons to release neurotransmitters.

In English that means that your body does not send signals to the brains, so you cannot feel pain, see objects, etc.

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The first person to use anesthesia is Horace Wells, an American dentist in 1844 while having a tooth pulled out

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Giving anesthesia without a brain monitor is like letting your anesthesiologist play Russian roulette with your brain.

Granted most people survive their anesthesia, but that is the 20th century standard of care.

Waking up with the same number of mental 'marbles' one started with is the 21st century standard of care.

The only way to avoid the nefarious practice of routine anesthesia over medication (for fear of under medication) is to use your right to insist on a brain monitor if you are going under anesthesia for surgery.

Brain monitoring is a non-negotiable request. If your anesthesiologist tells you 'no,' ask for another anesthesiologist or go to another hospital where this monitor will be used.

75% of US hospitals have this device, but it is only used 25% of the time. Only you have to live with the long-term consequences of your short-term anesthesia care.

What is known is that up to 40% of patients leaving the hospital go home with brain fog (postoperative cognitive dysfunction or POCD) that can last as long as 1 year.

We also know that one patient dies from anesthesia over medication EVERY day.

Until widespread brain monitoring becomes the standard of care, the true incidence of the 'living death' of dementia will not be known.

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One common use for topical anesthetics is to relieve pain from problems such as sores in the mouth, skin scrapes, and hemorrhoids. The other broad category of use for topical anesthetics is to prevent pain from medical examinations or procedures

The drugs used are all used as local anesthetics. To name a few drugs, that are common in the procedure, are bupivacaine, chloroprocaine and lidocaine and these are provided in combination with fentanyl and sufentanil.

01962 with add on code 01969-P1

The 2012 CPT manual specifically states "(Use 01969 in conjunction with 01967)". Make sure you add the Physical Status modifier -P1 to 01969.

General anesthesia is commonly used, although regional (spinal or epidural) or local anesthesia may also be used.

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The term for this is a regional anesthetic.

"MAC" stands for monitored anesthesia care.

general, regional, and monitored anesthesia care

the code is 00830

01832-P1

A combination of inhaled anesthetic gases and intravenous drugs are usually delivered during general anesthesia; this practice is called balanced anesthesia.

00810

epidural

This type of doctor is called an anesthesiologist. An anesthesiologist is an MD; an anesthetist is an RN (nurse).