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  2. Anesthesia - Wikipedia

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    Anesthesia (American English) or anaesthesia (British English) is a state of controlled, temporary loss of sensation or awareness that is induced for medical or veterinary purposes. It may include some or all of analgesia (relief from or prevention of pain ), paralysis (muscle relaxation), amnesia (loss of memory), and unconsciousness .

  3. Anesthetic - Wikipedia

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    Leaves of the coca plant (Erythroxylum novogranatense var. Novogranatense), from which cocaine, a naturally occurring local anesthetic, is derived [1] [2]. An anesthetic (American English) or anaesthetic (British English; see spelling differences) is a drug used to induce anesthesia ⁠— ⁠in other words, to result in a temporary loss of sensation or awareness.

  4. Anesthesiology - Wikipedia

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    Anesthesiology, anaesthesiology or anaesthesia is the medical specialty concerned with the total perioperative care of patients before, during and after surgery. [1] It encompasses anesthesia, intensive care medicine, critical emergency medicine, and pain medicine. [2]

  5. Outline of anesthesia - Wikipedia

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    Anesthesia – pharmacologically induced and reversible state of amnesia, analgesia, loss of responsiveness, loss of skeletal muscle reflexes or decreased sympathetic nervous system, or all simultaneously. This allows patients to undergo surgery and other procedures without the distress and pain they would otherwise experience.

  6. How anesthesia affects your brain and body - AOL

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    Millions of Americans undergo anesthesia each year. Since 1846, doctors have used a variety of drugs to make patients unconscious for surgery, but even though the medications have changed, there's ...

  7. General anaesthesia - Wikipedia

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    General anaesthesia (UK) or general anesthesia (US) is medically induced loss of consciousness that renders a patient unarousable even by painful stimuli. [5] It is achieved through medications, which can be injected or inhaled, often with an analgesic and neuromuscular blocking agent .

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  9. How vets make anesthesia safer and how you need to keep your ...

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    If you can do so without danger or delay, photograph the snake or make a note of its size, color and markings to help your veterinarian determine appropriate treatment. Begin puppy housetraining ...