What is Anesthesia?
Anesthesia, meaning insensitivity and numbness, is a set of medical applications that prevent a person from feeling pain before and after surgery.
What are the Types of Anesthesia?
General anesthesia, which is mandatory for vital surgeries, is a state where the person's consciousness is temporarily completely shut off. While sensations disappear, vital functions are also kept under control. In general anesthesia, many drugs are administered to the person intravenously and through respiration. These drugs, administered intravenously as well as gases used with oxygen, are selected based on the person's physiological characteristics, the surgical site, and lifestyle.
Regional anesthesia, which means numbing only a part of the body such as the chest area, leg, or arm with the help of a needle, has types such as nerve block, epidural, and spinal. Consciousness is awake in epidural and spinal anesthesia, which are especially preferred in gynecology and obstetrics surgery (cesarean and painless birth), hernia, and orthopedic surgeries.
In nerve block anesthesia, preferred in operations performed on arms and legs, the nerves supplying the region are numbed.
In local anesthesia, applied in surgical interventions on small areas, only the area where the operation will be performed is numbed. Consciousness is awake. The anesthetic substance is applied with the help of a syringe.
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