See anesthesia.
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A temporary loss of feeling and a complete loss of awareness that feels like a very deep sleep. It is caused by special drugs or other substances called anesthetics. General anesthesia keeps patients from feeling pain during surgery or other procedures.
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relieves the sensation of pain.
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General anesthesia is a method used to stop pain from being felt during a procedure or surgery. In this form of anesthesia medication is given to make the person unconscious.
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True general anesthesia is a deep state, and includes the loss of all reflexes and sometimes requires respiratory assistance. This state is rarely necessary for general dental procedures as all the most fearful patient wants is no pain, no consciousness of the procedures and no memory of the experience.
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a state of unconsciousness produced by anesthestic agents, with absence of pain sensation over the entire body and a greater or lesser degree of muscular relaxation; the drugs producing this state can be administered by inhalation, intravenously, intramuscularly, or rectally, or via the gastrointestinal tract.
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Drugs that make a person unconscious and unable to feel pain. General anesthesia is sometimes used for emergency cesarean sections
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Type: Term Definitions: 1. loss of ability to perceive pain associated with loss of consciousness produced by intravenous or inhalation anesthetic agents; may include amnesia and musle relaxation.
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A form of anesthesia in which medications are given that render the patient unconscious. If general anesthesia is used during childbirth, the laboring mother will be asleep and will not feel any pain during the delivery. General anesthesia is primarily used during cesarean sections and emergency situations in which the benefit of having general an....
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n] - a state of total unconsciousness resulting from anesthetic drugs (as for a major surgical operation)
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A controlled state of unconsciousness, accompanied by a partial or complete loss of protective reflexes, including loss of ability to independently maintain airway and respond purposefully to physical stimulation or verbal command, produced by a pharmacologic or non-pharmacologic method or combination thereof;
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A deep level of sedation in which patients lose consciousness, feel no pain, and have no memory of what is taking place around them.
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Relieves the sensation of pain on the whole body. General anesthesia renders you unconscious.
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Drugs that make a person unconscious and unable to feel pain. General anesthesia is sometimes used for emergency cesarean sections.
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