General Anesthetics also spelled Anesthetic, consist of drugs that put you in sleep ,relax your muscles and prevent you from feeling anything and you don't remember anything unless anything goes terribly wrong. We all know the effects of drugs on body and brain but how they do the job so well us still not understood.
Overall View is that General Anesthetics operate directly on the central nervous system to prevent synaptic transmission, in simple words they interfere with the way neural impulses
are transmitted between adjacent neurons. The result is in the general loss of consciousness that affects sensory awareness in all forms and in all parts of the body. Yet the precise biochemistry behind the whole process has yet to be explained.
According to a study published in the Journal of Healthcare Risk Management, the most frequently reported anesthesia-related injuries were:
- Teeth damage (20.8 %).
- Death (18.3 %).
- Nerve damage (13.5 %).
- Organ damage (12.7 %).
- Cardiopulmonary arrest (10.7 %).
How Do Anesthesia Errors Occur?
Anesthesia-related injuries or death can be caused due to any number of errors, including:
- Improper intubation
- Administering anesthesia to a patient with allergies.
- Failure to properly monitor the patient.
- Failure to administer oxygen.
- Anesthesia dosage error.
- Poor communication among the surgical team.
Did you know?
In 1799 Sir Humphry Davy, British chemist and inventor, tried inhaling nitrous oxide and discovered its anesthetic properties, but the implications of his findings for surgery were ignored. By the early 1840s parties had become fashionable in Britain and the United States at which nitrous oxide, contained in bladders, was passed around and inhaled for its soporific effect. It was soon found that ether, which could be carried much more conveniently in small bottles, was equally potent.
Soporific Effect: causing sleep or making a person want to sleep.
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