What is in anesthesia that makes you not be able to feel the pain?!
Question: Analgesia (not feeling pain) is one component of general anesthesia. It can be accomplished in part by the inhaled anesthetic gases, but that is usually insufficient, so we add opiates.
There are also local anesthetics that block transmission of nerve impulses. If we put those drugs around the spinal cord, as in spinal or epidural anesthesia, you won't feel pain (or anything else). If we inject them directly into an area, or around a nerve, we can numb other areas of the body as well.
I ask my surgeons to use local anesthesia whenever possible so that when my patients wake up, they need less of the opiate pain meds (which cause respiratory depression, nausea, and a bunch of other side effects.)
Answers: Analgesia (not feeling pain) is one component of general anesthesia. It can be accomplished in part by the inhaled anesthetic gases, but that is usually insufficient, so we add opiates.
There are also local anesthetics that block transmission of nerve impulses. If we put those drugs around the spinal cord, as in spinal or epidural anesthesia, you won't feel pain (or anything else). If we inject them directly into an area, or around a nerve, we can numb other areas of the body as well.
I ask my surgeons to use local anesthesia whenever possible so that when my patients wake up, they need less of the opiate pain meds (which cause respiratory depression, nausea, and a bunch of other side effects.)
anesthetic
during the climax of course
I think your referring to an epidural - your still awake but it blocks most of the pain OR you could be talking about a local anesthetic
Epidural
To some earlier posters... Epidural is a Type of Ansethesia administration through the Epidual space in the spine. It is not a drug of any type.
The drugs used during the adminstration of Anesthesia may be any of the following or a combination of the following either in the form of a gas which is inhaled or intraveinously.
Nitrous oxide
Halothane
Enflurane
Isoflurane
Sevoflurane
Desflurane
Xenon (rarely used)
Thiopental
Methohexital
Benzodiazepines
Midazolam
Lorazepam
Diazepam
Propofol
Etomidate
Ketamine
there r 2 typres of abeasthetics local and general
local = cocaine, procaine, lidocain etc
general = isoflurane, desflurane, sevoflurane, nitric oxide, halothane etc
local anesthtics block ur sensory nerve endings thus blocking pain and heat, touch and vibration sensations
general anesthtics act on ur cns thus making u unconcious. general anesthtics also have varying levels of pain releiivng properties.
various general anesthtics have graded dose-response curves so u must be careful in this respect.