Anesthesia Equipment
Medical uses
The purpose of anesthesia can be
distilled down to three basic goals
or endpoints
Techniques
Safe anesthesia care depends
greatly on well-functioning teams
of highly trained healthcare
workers
General Anesthesia
The ideal anesthetic drug would
provide hypnosis, amnesia,
analgesia, and muscle relaxation
without undesirable changes in
blood pressure, pulse or breathing
The purpose of the anesthetic machine is
Anesthesia or anesthesia (from
Greek "without sensation") is a
state of controlled, temporary loss
of sensation or awareness that is
induced for medical purposes
to provide anesthetic gas at a constant
pressure, oxygen for breathing and to
remove carbon dioxide or other waste
anesthetic gases
Monitoring
Patients under general anesthesia
must undergo continuous
physiological monitoring to ensure
safety
Sedation
From the perspective of the person
giving the sedation, the patient appears
sleepy, relaxed and forgetful, allowing
unpleasant procedures to be more
easily completed
 Risks and
complications
Anesthesia
Risks and complications as they relate to
anesthesia are classified as either morbidity
(a disease or disorder that results from
anesthesia) or mortality (death that results
from anesthesia). Quantifying how
anesthesia contributes to morbidity and
mortality can be difficult because a person's
health prior to surgery and the complexity of
the surgical procedure can also contribute to
the risks.

History

The first attempts at general anesthesia

were probably herbal
remedies administered Medical uses
in prehistory. Alcohol is one of the oldest Techniques
known sedatives and it was used in
ancient Mesopotamiathousands of years Risks and complications
ago.[29] The Sumerians are said to have
cultivated and harvested History
the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum)
in lower Mesopotamia as early as 3400
BC.