History of Anesthesia Essay -- Biology Medicine

  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  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.   Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  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.   Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  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.   Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  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 surface analgesia produced by application of a topical anesthetic in the form of a solution, gel, or ointment to the skin, mucous membrane, or cornea. Regional anesthesia is an anesthesia of an area of the body by injecting a local anesthetic to block a group of sensory nerve fibers. Next one would be a caudal anesthesia which would an injection of an agent into the caudal part of the epidural space through the sacral hiatus to anesthetize sacral and lower lumbar nerve roots. An epidural anesthesia is an injection A type of regional block in which a local  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  anesthetic is injected into the epidural... ...imetry added to the standards for basic monitoring when it comes to an anesthestized patient. 1992 Desflurane was finally made that it could be used clinically. Desflurane is one the anesthesia drugs that must be heated because it is unsable in room temperature. 1994 Sevoflurane also was passed to be used in a clinically stable medical field. 1995 House of Delegates of the ASA approves Practice Guidelines for Preoperative Transesphageal Echocardiography. 1996 End trial carbon dioxide monitoring added to the standards for basic monitoring. End trial carbon dioxide can also be used as EtCO2. Also in this year the Bispectral Index Monitoring System approved for Clinical use. House of the ASA approves Practice Guidelines for Office Based Anesthesia. Last thing in this year Rapacuronium used clinically and it is also always known as a IV drug. WORK CITIED The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 3rd. Edition. 21 November 1846 Longnecker, David E., Murphy, Frank L. Introduction to Anesthesia. Copyright 1997 Dorsch, Jerry A., Susan E. Understanding Anesthesia Equipment Construction, Care, and Complications (3rd. Edition). Copyright 1993