By: Patrick Ashcraft
Anesthesiology is a very vital branch in the medical field. Anesthesia is used in before, during, and after surgery for putting the patient to sleep and taking care of pain. There are three different categories of anesthesia, they are: general anesthesia, regional anesthesia, and local anesthesia.
General anesthesia is where you are completely unaware of any feelings or pain while asleep and have no recollection of anything that goes on. This is often given through a gas mask or through a vein which would be an IV.
Regional anesthesia is where the doctor injects medicine into a "cluster of nerves" of the area that has to be operated on, while given this anesthesia you may be awake or given medicine to put you to sleep, but no matter what you don't feel pain or sensations of the area.
Local anesthesia is where the anesthetic drug is injected into the location that is requiring the operation, this is usually not an operation that you are asleep for.
Works Cited:
An Overview." Anesthesia Overview & Information. Web. 15 Nov. 2015.
What are the requirements to being an anesthesiologist? I feel like it's an "easy" area of the medical field cause you're just putting someone to sleep, correct me if I am wrong. Are there many issues when it comes to being an anesthesiologist, considering the work with nerves and all?
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