NUR 426 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Desflurane, Antiemetic, Altered Level Of Consciousness
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What is anesthesia: absence of feeling, affects. Regional anesthesia: medically induced coma and loss of protective reflexes from the administration of one or more general anesthetic agents. Analgesia, amnesia and immobility: anesthesia affecting a large part of the body, such as a limb or lower half of the body. Regional anesthetic techniques can be divided into central and peripheral techniques. The central techniques include so called neuraxial blockade (epidural. The peripheral technique can be further divided into plexus blocks and anesthesia, spinal anesthesia) single nerve blocks. Choice of anesthetic: co-existing disease, site of surgery, position, elective vs. emergency, age, gastric contents / npo status, patient preference / provider preference, duration of the surgery, discharge criteria/anticipated recovery time, anticipated airway difficulty. Pharmacology curves: pharmacodynamics the effect of the drug on the body, receptors, potency, response, pharmacokinetics what the body does to the drug.
