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An artificial method of preventing sensation, used to eliminate pain without causing loss of vital functions, by the administration of one or more agents which block pain impulses before transmitted to the brain.

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The loss or prevention of sensation, as caused by anesthesia, lesion in the nervous system or other physical abnormality.

This practical resource is a concise guide designed to prepare veterinary technicians to administer anesthesia in animals.

Furthermore, many children with Cerebral Palsy must be given general anesthesia for routine dental care.

Subjects covered include anesthesia, dentistry, health sciences, healthcare, life sciences, medicine, nursing, psychiatry and public health.

This risk is no higher than for any other surgery requiring general anesthesia.

In my practice, I limit caudal epidural anesthesia to children who are still small enough for their mothers to carry.

This edition includes updated chapters on NSAIDs, headaches, TENS, hypnosis, and regional anesthesia.

Approximately half of eligible patients were treated under local anesthesia.

However, it has been this author's practice to administer atropine routinely before ketamine anesthesia.

He received atropine 500 mcg premedication and then topical local anesthesia to the mucosa of his upper airway.

However, rapid detoxification completes this process in four to six hours while under anesthesia and requires a 24-48 hour stay in a clinical setting.

Adverse reactions to general anesthesia may also occur.

This ' venous admixture ' increases from 1% to around 10% following induction of anesthesia.

Others say that women should suffer in childbirth as a divine punishment and not use anesthesia.

Since my return from UK, I am providing ophthalmic anesthesia for pediatric patients.

Anesthesia can be induced by barbiturate or non-barbiturate drugs.

The operation is intensely painful, typically performed without anesthesia, in unhygienic conditions with razor blades, knives or even broken glass.

Expert opinion advises that a few lesions can usually be treated by cryotherapy, especially in older children, without anesthesia.

Because of its effect on increasing blood flow to the gut, spinal anesthesia reduces the incidence of anastomotic dehiscence.

Insulin dependant diabetes mellitus These patients are not suitable patients to be treated using general anesthesia in an outpatient environment.

The patient is placed in the sitting position to facilitate the spread of anesthesia inferiorly to the stellate ganglion.

They have close professional relationships with consultants in medical gastroenterology, anesthesia, radiology and oncology.

The charming lady anesthetist in Tartu was the only person who I met who used halothane during general anesthesia for Caesarean Section.

An inhalational induction of anesthesia is usually very easy to perform with halothane which is not irritating to the airway.

We recommend day care using local anesthesia and protocols for assessment, surgery, and follow-up.

For good reviews of the cellular mechanisms of general anesthesia see Franks and Lieb (1994, 1997 ).

Regional anesthesia is a good way of achieving analgesia in surgical neonates.

Transient paraesthesia, numbness and anesthesia of the leg can occur due to spread of anesthetic solution to the sacral plexus 27.

A small asymptomatic pneumothorax may rapidly develop into a life threatening tension pneumothorax during anesthesia.

All surgical procedures will be done under general anesthesia using sterile techniques, followed by recovery.

There is some preservation of airway reflexes during anesthesia with this agent.

The induction of anesthesia is followed by tracheal intubation after the administration of a depolarizing muscle relaxant.

Here, Mrs Y would be harmed by forcibly restraining her in order to insert the needle for anesthesia.

Some anesthetists pass stomach tubes prior to induction of anesthesia to empty the stomach.

It is particularly useful to treat hypotension during spinal anesthesia when the patient has a tachycardia.

Carefully titrated epidural anesthesia for labor is associated with less sympathetic blockade than spinal or epidural anesthesia for cesarean delivery.

Reptiles have a very slow metabolic rate; because of this they often have slow inductions and even slower recoveries from anesthesia.

Topical anesthesia is usually not necessary for speculum examination.

We perform about 30 Cesarean sections annually using spinal anesthesia.

A second group of surgical patients undergoing elective back surgery under general anesthesia.

Prior to laser treatment the patient requires topical anesthesia to the treatment area.

Patients undergoing surgery under regional anesthesia initially experience a dull ache in the exsanguinated limb after about 30 minutes of tourniquet application.

Nevertheless, some mice will be operated on during the embryo transfer and vasectomy procedures but these operations will be performed under general anesthesia.

The document is taken from " Zoological restraint and anesthesia " edited by D Heard.

Tubal Ligation-This requires surgery, including anesthesia, which may pass into the breastmilk.

Anesthesia should only be used in the cases where teeth need to be pulled or for deep gum work.

Most cats can have the yearly cleaning done by a hygienist who can come to your home and not use anesthesia, and for not too much money.

If there is an obstruction, your vet will give your cat anesthesia and put a catheter in place to remove the obstruction and clear the bladder.

Valerian can make anesthesia more effective.

Your doctor may have you taper off of valerian before surgery or may simply adjust the anesthesia accordingly.

During this type of treatment, an addict is placed under general anesthesia.