Anesthesia is easily seen as one of the greatest things introduced to the medical field. Without it, surgery is virtually impossible and at the same time extremely painful. Anesthesia provides relief and painless procedures to patients while making surgeries much more common than they used to be. Many patients could not survive a surgery due to the excruciating pain, which would cause their blood pressure to rise dramatically causing extreme bleeding. With anesthesia being progressively used throughout the years, it allows for more surgeries to be created and tested in the medical field. Over centuries, anesthesia has been developed into several different types that are able to provide pain free surgeries with minimal risk. “Of all milestones
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General anesthesia can be inhaled or administered through an IV. The reason it can be delivered either way is because the drug that is being administered is liquid, which is how it can be injected into to the IV, or it is vaporized, which is how it is inhaled. “A person under general anesthesia is completely unaware of what is going on and does not feel pain during the surgery or procedure. Anesthesia interrupts the pain signals between a person's nerve endings and the brain. The health professional administering the anesthesia monitors the person's condition throughout the procedure” ( Husney, Adam and Freedman, John). Local anesthesia only numbs the part of the body that is being repaired, usually a quick surgery. The patient is not unconscious and is usually awake for the surgery unless other drugs are used to strengthen the pain relief ( Husney, Adam and Freedman, John). The third type of anesthesia is regional. The most specific example of regional anesthesia is a nerve block. Nerve blocks are used on a specific region of the body and the anesthetic is injected by a needle. An epidural is also an example of regional anesthesia which is used for women giving birth to block pain from the abdomen and waist down. The epidural is injected in the lower back into a group of nerves located near the spine. This solution numbs the nerves not allowing them to relay pain signals ( Husney, Adam and Freedman, John). This will usually last around twelve hours after surgery. All of these types obtain the same objective which is to provide pain relief. A lot must occur before the use of these anesthetics
General anesthesia can be inhaled or administered through an IV. The reason it can be delivered either way is because the drug that is being administered is liquid, which is how it can be injected into to the IV, or it is vaporized, which is how it is inhaled. “A person under general anesthesia is completely unaware of what is going on and does not feel pain during the surgery or procedure. Anesthesia interrupts the pain signals between a person's nerve endings and the brain. The health professional administering the anesthesia monitors the person's condition throughout the procedure” ( Husney, Adam and Freedman, John). Local anesthesia only numbs the part of the body that is being repaired, usually a quick surgery. The patient is not unconscious and is usually awake for the surgery unless other drugs are used to strengthen the pain relief ( Husney, Adam and Freedman, John). The third type of anesthesia is regional. The most specific example of regional anesthesia is a nerve block. Nerve blocks are used on a specific region of the body and the anesthetic is injected by a needle. An epidural is also an example of regional anesthesia which is used for women giving birth to block pain from the abdomen and waist down. The epidural is injected in the lower back into a group of nerves located near the spine. This solution numbs the nerves not allowing them to relay pain signals ( Husney, Adam and Freedman, John). This will usually last around twelve hours after surgery. All of these types obtain the same objective which is to provide pain relief. A lot must occur before the use of these anesthetics