General anesthesia is medicine given to a patient before any type of surgery to make you sleep and prevent you from feeling pain. Propofol (Diprivan) is the most commonly used general anesthetic works as an interrupting nerve which supplies the anesthetic drug into your brain and body which prevents the brain from processing pain and remembering what happened during your surgery. Before any surgery anesthesia is given to a patient with the help of an IV line that goes into a vein in your arm or hand or else the patient can breathe in gas through a mask after that patient will fall asleep within a couple of minutes. Once you are asleep doctor might put a tube through your mouth into the windpipe that ensures you get enough oxygen during surgery. During surgery, the anesthesia team will check breathing, temperature, heart rate, fluid levels, blood pressure, and blood oxygen level to the patient to adjust their medications or to give you more fluids or blood if incase any emergency is needed. They will also make sure you stay asleep and pain-free throughout the complete procedure. General anesthesia is most commonly used for complicated operations like knee and hip replacement, heart surgery, and surgical procedure related to cancer, many of the surgeries are lifesaving or life-changing which cannot be possible without general anesthesia.

The patient might feel a little drowsy when they wake up from the anesthesia and there are some other side effects due to anesthesia such as sore throat, itching, dry mouth, muscle ache, nausea and vomiting, shivering, and confusion (especially observed in older people). These effects are rare but some people may be confused for a few days after the surgery and this is called delirium which usually goes away about a week. Some people may be troubled with memory loss after taking general anesthesia which is most commonly seen in a patient with Alzheimer’s disease or Parkinson’s disease, heart disease, and lung diseases. General anesthesia is far safe for healthy people. Anesthetic drug can stay in your body up to 24-48 hours. If you have given regional anesthesia, sedation or general anesthesia you should not go to work or drive until the drug from your body left. If you have given local anesthesia you can do all normal activities. General anesthesia is safe for most of the people but it may carry a greater chance of complications if you are obese, elderly, have obstructive sleep apnea which causes breathing to pause while sleep and are allergic. It is rare but you can still awake after general anesthesia and can feel pain during the surgery which may further long lasting problems.

There are three main types of Anesthetic, general anesthesia is one among them and the other two types are Local anesthesia, which is given before minor surgeries that reduces pain sensation in small and focused areas of the body. Regional Anesthesia, this numbs the entire body parts and there are two forms of regional anesthesia spinal anesthetic is used for lower limb and abdomen surgeries which is injected into the lower back and numbs the lower body, and the other type is epidural anesthesia is used to reduce the pain of the childbirth and lower limb surgery and is injected it near the spinal cord.

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