What is an epidural? During an epidural, the signal transmission of the spinal cord nerves is interrupted by injecting a drug. The spinal cord runs along the spine in the spinal canal and transmits nerve signals between the brain and the body. With an PDA, sensitive nerve signals caused by pain, temperature or pressure no … Epidural Anesthesia: Uses, Benefits, Risks
What is local anesthesia? Local anesthesia causes pain suppression in a limited area, for example on the skin or in the supply area of entire nerves in the extremities. The drugs used (local anesthetics) interrupt signal transmission in the nerve endings. This produces a local anesthetic. The duration and strength of the effect depend on … Local anesthesia: Applications, advantages, risks
What is an epidural birth? An epidural is an anesthetic procedure often used during childbirth to relieve the often very intense pain experienced by women. To do this, the doctor injects a drug close to the spinal cord, suppressing the transmission of signals from the nerves for a certain period of time. With the correct … Epidural Analgesia during Birth: Advantages and Risks
What is anesthesia? Anesthesia is used to put patients into an artificial sleep. For this purpose, the responsible specialist (anesthesiologist) uses various drugs and/or gas mixtures. Anesthesia enables operations and certain examination procedures to be performed that would otherwise only be possible in extreme pain. There are different procedures, which differ, among other things, in … Anesthesia: Areas of Application, Methods, Effects
Infiltration anesthesia is the injection of a local anesthetic intradermally (into the skin), subcutaneously (into the subcutaneous fat), or intramuscularly (into the muscles) to temporarily interrupt pain conduction. Along with surface anesthesia and regional anesthesia, infiltration anesthesia belongs to the higher-level field of local anesthesia. The method is used primarily for minor surgical procedures, such … Infiltration Anesthesia
Surface anesthesia, along with infiltration anesthesia and regional anesthesia, is one of the local anesthesia procedures. It is used for “superficial” pain anesthesia. Here, mucosal anesthesia is distinguished from topical local anesthesia of the skin. While local anesthetics can be absorbed very well through the mucous membrane, these would not be able to penetrate the … Surface Anesthesia
Peridural anesthesia (PDA) (synonym: epidural anesthesia (EDA); also called spinal anesthesia) is one of the procedures of regional anesthesia (conduction anesthesia) and is used to temporarily interrupt neuronal excitation conduction. The so-called peridural space surrounds the dura mater (hard meninges) and is located in the spinal canal, where it extends from the foramen magnum (lat. … Peridural Anesthesia
Spinal anesthesia is a spinal cord-based form of regional anesthesia. It results in the temporary interruption of the excitation conduction of the spinal nerve roots (nerve roots that branch off from the individual segments of the spinal cord), and thus serves to block pain conduction as well as muscle relaxation. This is done with the … Spinal Anesthesia (Anesthesiology)
Tumescent anesthesia (synonym: tumescent local anesthesia (TLA)) is one of the local anesthesia procedures, along with surface anesthesia, infiltration anesthesia, and regional anesthesia. It is a form of infiltration anesthesia and is used for cosmetic surgery procedures, such as liposuction. In 1987, liposuction using tumescent local anesthesia (TLA)was performed for the first time by the … Tumescent Anesthesia
General anesthesia is the conventional anesthesia or general anesthesia (Greek nàrkosi: to put to sleep). This form of anesthesia first enabled the development of today’s surgical standards. It is used for operations that are not reasonable for the awake patient. General anesthesia forms a very large subfield of anesthesia. In Germany, anesthesia may only be … General Anesthesia (Anesthesiology)
Balanced anesthesia is a commonly performed form of general anesthesia. General anesthesia refers to conventional general anesthesia (Greek nàrkosi: to put to sleep), which forms a very large subspecialty of the field of anesthesiology. The definition of balanced anesthesia is not narrowly defined. Generally, it is understood to be a combination of inhalation anesthesia and … Balanced Anesthesia
Local anesthesia is the second major field of anesthesia after general anesthesia. It is used for local (locally limited) analgesia without affecting consciousness. Nerve endings or pathways are reversibly (non-permanently) anesthetized for a limited period of time using so-called local anesthetics. The beginnings of local anesthesia date back to 1884, the year in which Carl … Local Anesthesia (Anesthesiology)