general anaesthesia in English

chemically induced unconscious state in order to perform medical procedures (as opposed to local anaesthesia where the patient remains conscious)

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1. It can also involve using a medicine that causes unconsciousness (general Anaesthesia)

2. Hb was 4.6 g/dl%. General anaesthesia was performed with midazolam, ketamine and vecuronium and mechanical ventilation.

3. (d) When inhaled the gas must first induce deep general anaesthesia and must then cause certain death.

4. Contaminated air in general anaesthesia is extracted via a hemispherical hood (1) located closely over the patient.

5. 22 At 14 months, all rate were killed by exsanguination under general anaesthesia and after fasting for 15 hours.

6. Methods: 1218 patients aged 60 years and older and scheduled for major non-cardiac surgery under general anaesthesia were investigated.

7. In addition, after general anaesthesia with endotracheal intubation preterm infants, who had suffered from severe respiratory distress syndrome, often require prolonged postoperative mechanical ventilation.

8. The final part of the paper is devoted to a discussion of the problems specific to general anaesthesia and preparation for surgery in hypertensive patients.

9. General anaesthesia or general anesthesia (see spelling differences) is a medically induced coma with loss of protective reflexes, resulting from the administration of one or more general anaesthetic agents.

10. Non-recovery – Animals which have undergone a procedure that has been performed entirely under general anaesthesia from which the animal has not recovered consciousness shall be reported as non-recovery.

11. During the course of the block and while injecting the localanalgesics the clear liquid seeps out of the anus so the trial was Abortedand patient was taken under general anaesthesia only

12. To evaluate the antiemetic efficacy of granisetron, a selective 5-hydroxytryptamine type 3 receptor antagonist, on postoperative vomiting in children undergoing general anaesthesia for strabismus repair and tonsillectomy with or without adenoidectomy.

13. 80 ASA I-II patients undergoing elective laparoscopic or proctologic surgery received at induction of general anaesthesia a single i.v. bolus dose of either ketamine 0.15 mg/kg or placebo (0.9% NaCl).

14. An Anaesthetist of appropriate experience, or fully trained Physician Assistant (Anaesthesia) PA (A) under the supervision of a consultant Anaesthetist, must be present throughout general anaesthesia, including any period of cardiopulmonary bypass.

15. ‘Consultants in Anaesthetics, radiology, and pathology were less likely to receive awards.’ ‘Anaesthetists are clinical officers who have trained in Anaesthetics for 15 months after a three year foundation health course.’ ‘A senior associate specialist or consultant in Anaesthetics provided general anaesthesia.’

16. Noun local or general loss of bodily sensation, esp of touch, as the result of nerve damage or other abnormality loss of sensation, esp of pain, induced by drugs: called general Anaesthesia when consciousness is lost and local Anaesthesia when only a specific area of the body is involved a general dullness or lack of feeling

17. The boy was Admitted to hospital, and three days later the swelling was incised and drained under general anaesthesia.: The alternative has serious problems of its own, replacing faux precision with Admitted vagueness and subjectivity.: Water containing minute food particles is Admitted through the incurrent siphon into the pharyngeal basket.: Again in two national indabas in Johannesburg

18. General anaesthesia or general anesthesia (see spelling differences) is a medically induced coma with loss of protective reflexes, resulting from the administration of one or more general Anaesthetic agents.It is carried out to allow medical procedures that would otherwise be intolerably painful for the patient; or where the nature of the procedure itself precludes the patient being awake.