anesthesia
General anesthesia is not deep sleep, since a sleeping person can be roused by noise or touch and an anesthetized one cannot.
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Dysesthesia is a distorted sense of touch that makes an ordinary stimulus feel painful, unpleasant, or otherwise abnormal.
Read definitiongeneral anesthesia
A temporary loss of feeling and a complete loss of awareness that feels like a very deep sleep.
Read definitionlocal anesthesia
A temporary loss of feeling in one small area of the body caused by special drugs or other substances called anesthetics.
Read definitionpalmar-plantar erythrodysesthesia
A condition marked by pain, swelling, numbness, tingling, or redness of the hands or feet.
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The distribution of the tingling carries most of the information, since it maps onto whichever nerve or nerve root is affected.
Read definitionregional anesthesia
A temporary loss of feeling or awareness in a part of the body, such as an arm or a leg, caused by special drugs or other substances called anesthetics.
Read definitionspinal anesthesia
A temporary loss of feeling in the abdomen and/or the lower part of the body.
Read definitionnumbness
Sensation reduced or absent in an area, which is a different finding from the tingling and pins and needles it is often confused with.
Read definitionSAB
One injection, no catheter, and a needle placed deliberately below the point where the spinal cord itself stops.
Read definitionanesthesiologist
Much of the work is not putting a person to sleep but keeping breathing, circulation and body chemistry steady while the surgery proceeds.
Read definitionbarbiturate
The gap between a dose that sedates and one that stops breathing is narrow, which is why safer alternatives displaced this class.
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Bupivacaine is a long acting local anesthetic widely used for regional nerve blocks, epidurals, and pain control after surgery.
Read definitioncraniotomy
A craniotomy creates a temporary opening in the skull to give surgeons direct access to the brain for a planned neurosurgical procedure.
Read definitionD&C
D&C is a procedure that widens the cervix and removes tissue from the uterine lining for treatment or diagnosis.
Read definitionECT
Speed is the usual reason it is chosen, since a response can arrive faster than medication typically achieves in severe illness.
Read definitionelectroencephalogram
The recording is often obtained under specific conditions, such as during sleep or with flashing lights, to help capture patterns not seen at rest.
Read definitionelectroshock therapy
The name survives from an era the procedure no longer resembles, since it is now given under anesthesia with no visible convulsion at all.
Read definitionexcisional skin surgery
A surgical procedure used to remove moles, cysts, skin cancer, and other skin growths using local anesthesia.
Read definitionF511 cream
A substance being studied in the prevention of palmar-plantar erythrodysesthesia (pain, swelling, numbness, tingling, or redness of the palms of the hands or soles of the feet) in breast cancer…
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