Anesthesia

PATIENT INFORMATION ON ANESTHESIA

General anesthesia

The General anesthesia, or general anesthesia is used to completely switch off consciousness and the sensation of pain completely. All reflexes are also affected, especially the respiratory drive, are severely impaired, so that artificial respiration is necessary.

Analgosedation

With the Analgosedation a state is achieved that is also known as twilight sleep. Both painkillers (analgesics) and anesthetics are administered via an intravenous line, albeit in smaller quantities. As a result, spontaneous breathing is maintained and ventilation is not usually necessary. This form is used for short procedures or in combination with local or regional anesthesia. regional anesthesia.

Regional anesthesia

The nerve tracts or nerve cords associated with the surgical area are located using ultrasound guidance and flushed with local anesthetics. This form of Regional anesthesia can also be combined with analgosedation. An example of this is Dupuytren's surgery on a hand.

Local anesthesia

Here, only the area to be operated is marked with a Local anesthetic infiltrated, e.g. for minor operations such as skin tumors, upper eyelid lifts, minor operations on the hand or facelifts. As these operations also take longer, we combine them with analgosedation.

In all forms of anesthesia (general and regional anesthesia, analgosedation), patients are connected to a monitor and their bodily functions, such as oxygen saturation, cardiac activity (ECG) and blood pressure, are monitored.