Anesthesia

I will be telling you my short little paper on the

History of Anesthesia. I will be telling what some

terms mean that will be used in anesthesia history.

Also I will be telling a some dates from years before

our time on how anesthesia came from and who was

there, and what drugs came out.

First I will be starting out with several definition

of the term anesthesia. The absence of normal

sensitiation, especially to pain, as induced by an

anesthetic substance or by hypnosis or as occurs with

traumatic or pathophysiologic damage to nerve tissue.

Anesthesia induced for medical or surgical purposes

may be topical, local, regional, or general and is

named for the anesthetic agent used, the method of the

procedure followed, or the area or organ anesthetized.

The people who are permitted to give anesthesia to a

patient is an anesthesiologist or a Certified

Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA). (Mosby's Pocket

Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health)

There is also two different ways of describing

Anesthesia you could either call it anesthesia or

analgesic.

In the next couple paragraphs I will be going over

ways on how anesthesia would be given to a patient who

will be going under a surgery.

General anesthesia is the most common way that

anesthesia is given to a patient. The absence of

sensation and consciousness as induced by various

anesthetic agents, given by inhalation or intravenous

injection. Most of the time a general anesthesia is

given to the patient through an IV to the patient.

Local anesthesia is another common way of inducing a

patient. The administration of a local anesthetic

agent into tissues to induce the absence of sensation

in a small area of the body. Topical anesthesia is a