In the post-anesthesia care unit, where I currently practice. Adequate post-surgical pain management is of the primary goals upon the admission of a patient after a surgical procedure. The Practice Guidelines for Acute Pain Management in the Perioperative Setting described favorable recommendations to achieve these aims. Therefore, obtain positive postoperative health care outcomes, as well as an improve patient’s surgical experience, which may translate to higher quality of care and better patient…
Anesthesia- a loss of feeling or sensation Surgical anesthesia- Specific stage of general anesthesia in which there was a sufficient degree of analgesia and muscle relaxation to be able to preform surgery Analgesia- absence of pain 2. List several uses for anesthesia, beside surgery (3pts) There are many uses for anesthesia beside surgery. Some other uses are for euthanasia, restraints, and some procedures. If an animal is out of control to the point where it is extremely hard to work on the…
The Study of Anesthesia: History, Chemistry, and Activity By Cordell Jones The Description of Anesthesia, It’s Effects, its Careers, and it’s Future By Cordell Jones Introduction In 1591, a young mother was dragged from her home and taken away. Her mercy pleas were ignored, and she was thrown intro a pit and buried alive. What was this mother’s crime? She had given birth to twin sons, and during her labor she had asked for some pain relief. The Church regarded the…
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. 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…
Case Study: Margaret Whilst the patient is in PACU, identify and discuss airway management (and rationales) as related to the case study (400 words) The post-operative patient is at risk for respiratory problems due to ineffective airway clearance related to changes in pulmonary physiology and function caused by anaesthetics, narcotics, mechanical ventilation, hypothermia and surgery. With increased tracheobronchial secretions secondary to the effects of anaesthesia, combined with ineffective…
General Anesthesia When someone faces surgery, they most likely have many concerns. Among them usually include going under anesthesia. They may worry about losing consciousness, how they may feel afterward, or if it is even safe. There are several types of anesthesia that can be used depending on the needs of the surgery, such as: general, local, regional, and conscious sedation. In this paper, I will focus on discussing general anesthesia’s history, purpose, effects, and safety. History of Anesthesia…
Jovanna Rios 11/25/13 Pharmacology is the study of the physical, biological and chemical actions of drugs (Bryant & Knights, 2011). In the practice of medicine, drugs are used to diagnose, treat or prevent disease so for the registered nurse in a clinical setting, the knowledge of pharmacology plays a huge importance in their role of medication…
Mallory Whitson Justice 1st Period 2 February 2010 Anesthesia Anesthesia is the loss of feeling or sensation. It may be accomplished without the loss of consciousness, or with partial or total loss of consciousness. Anesthesia has not been around forever, but there is a background history of its creation and the primitive anesthetics used before anesthesia was discovered. Today there are many different anesthetics and delivery methods dependent to the type of procedure. Anesthesiologists…
Spinal Anesthesia and Epidural Anesthesia Spinal anesthesia and epidural anesthesia are methods of numbing the body before a medical procedure. They are done by injecting numbing medicine (anesthetic) into the back, near the spinal cord. Spinal anesthesia is usually done to numb an area at and below the place where the injection is made. It is often used during surgeries of the pelvis, hips, legs, and lower abdomen. It begins to work almost immediately. Epidural anesthesia may be done to numb an…
After surgery, patients in the general and spinal anesthesia group received opioids for postoperative pain and patients with epidurals received continuous infusions of hydromorphone and bupivacaine for 24 to 120 hours postoperatively (Ong, Arneja, & Ong, 2005). They found that patients who received epidural and spinal anesthesia had a significant decrease in pain in the first week after surgery compared to those who received general anesthesia. However, there was no difference in the use of opioid…