history and uses of anaesthesia

1. ANAESTHESIA
By Sameenah Ahmed

2. What is anaesthesia?
Insensitivity to pain, especially as artificially induced by the administration
of gases or the injection of drugs before surgical operations.

3. Anaesthesia may be used to:
• Relax you
• Block pain
• Make you sleepy or forgetful
• Make you unconscious for your surgery

4. Ether controversy
Largely debated over the necessity of
anaesthetics and if the costs outweigh the
benefits

5. A time before anaesthesia
Ether: a pleasant-smelling colourless
volatile liquid that is highly flammable. It is
used as an anaesthetic

6. The discovery of anaesthesia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_frUsNT8d4

7. Chloroform .vs. Ether
• Chloroform required more skill than ether
• Chloroform had narcotic effects on the central
nervous system
• The reaction to ether was slower than
chloroform

8. What are the types of anaesthesia?
• Local anaesthesia
• Regional anaesthesia
- Peripheral nerve blocks
- Epidural and spinal anaesthesia
• General anaesthesia

9. What determines the type of
anaesthesia used?
Your past and current health
The type of surgery The results of tests

10. What are some of the risks and
complications of anaesthesia?
Heart problems
PneumoniaSore throat
Vomiting

11. What we are yet to find out…

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