Anesthetic drugs are those liquid substances of a whitish or transparent color, which chemically produce the absence of sensitivity to pain in the human body, either total or partial, and their effect is temporary. Supervised medical practice that is used on a patient before, during and after surgery, either with or without compromise of conscience.
Anesthesia is a sedative that helps the patient to relax, and fall asleep before the pain that is caused by an injury, disease or operation, it acts directly on the nervous system of the body, which runs through the spinal cord, the brain, the spinal column extending through all the branches that reach each of the body's organs, as only to defined parts depending on the type of anesthesia that is administered.
The types of anesthesia are: Local anesthesia is an anesthetic that can be applied through an injection, by an ointment, ointment or gel, in an aerosol or spray that only numbs a certain and specific area of the patient's body, such as For example, a hand, part of the thigh, a foot or the skin that has to be worked on in a minor surgery. The patient is in a state of alert, awake or, failing that, only with a medium sedation, if the patient presents nervousness or restlessness and also if the procedure warrants it, it is of short duration that is why it is widely used in outpatient treatments such as extractions teeth or wisdom teeth, keeping the area numb during and after to minimize discomfort.
Regional anesthesia is the anesthetic that is injected and numbs the nerves covering a large part of the patient's body, as in the case of caesarean sections, where the patient is numb from the waist down, this is known as the epidural, which It is administered to women in normal deliveries, making the patient more comfortable in the surgical procedure and after it, avoiding pain or pain of a lesser degree, this regional anesthesia in some procedures is combined with general anesthesia.
The purpose of regional anesthesia is to leave the patient completely asleep and unconscious, maintaining this state before, during and shortly after surgery, with constant monitoring to avoid complications where the anesthetist continues to administer medications more easily and correctly, doing that the patient does not remember or feel pain from the surgical intervention, it is administered intravenously, that is, a needle is inserted into the vein mostly in the arm, or with the inhalation of gases or vapors through a mask or connected to a breathing tube inserted through the mouth and throat.
