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Twilight anesthesia is also known as twilight sleep and allows an easy awakening and a speedy recovery time for the patient. Anesthesia is used to control pain by using medicines that reversibly block nerve conduction near the site of administration, therefore, generating a loss of sensation at the area administered.
To induce general anesthesia, propofol is the drug used almost exclusively, having largely replaced sodium thiopental. [13]It is often administered as part of an anesthesia maintenance technique called total intravenous anesthesia, using either manually programmed infusion pumps or computer-controlled infusion pumps in a process called target controlled infusion (TCI).
Postanesthetic shivering is one of the leading causes of discomfort in patients recovering from general anesthesia. It usually results due to the anesthetic inhibiting the body's thermoregulatory capability, although cutaneous vasodilation (triggered by post-operative pain) may also be a causative factor.
A sixth-season episode of "Grey's Anatomy", "State of Love and Trust," involves a patient waking up during removal of an abdominal tumor, and retaining full memory of the event. Under: a 2006 film about anesthetic awareness. 2014 Bollywood movie Heartless – the patient experienced full awareness during heart transplant.
Other intravenous anesthetic drugs such as midazolam or propofol may be used. [1] [2] Drug-induced comas are used to protect the brain during major neurosurgery, as a last line of treatment in certain cases of status epilepticus that have not responded to other treatments, [2] and in refractory intracranial hypertension following traumatic ...
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Because it is rare in the general population, pseudocholinesterase deficiency is sometimes overlooked when a patient does not wake up after surgery. If this happens, there are two major complications that can arise. First, the patient may lie awake and paralyzed while medical providers try to determine the cause of the patient's unresponsiveness.