WHY IS THE ROLE OF AN ANESTHESIA IMPORTANT DURING SURGERY?
Anesthesia is an important part of surgery. It allows patients to go through an operation carefully without feeling distress and pain.
Anesthetists
assess patients before an operation to determine appropriate anesthetic plans.
Anesthetist is required to get patients’ medical history, conduct interviews
with them and order essential blood for transfusion. An anesthetic plan will
consider the nature and period of the operation, patients’ health situations
and other technical support factors. Patients are obligatory to fast for about
six hours before surgery.
Throughout
surgery, the anesthetist carries on administering anesthetic drugs or gases to
the patient to keep him or her unconscious throughout the operation. An anesthetist
also monitors the patient’s heartbeat, blood pressure, blood glucose level and
oxygen level throughout the operation, and should be always alert to any unpredicted
and life-threatening development such as blood loss and allergic reaction happening
during the operation.
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