Essays on General Anesthesia

Literature Review

An appraisal is a document that gives explanation about something or someone and aims at giving the value of quality of that particular thing or person. In this essay, the appraisal of the above- mentioned article would be outlined in details. However, before the highlight of this book is done, it would be fundamental to carry out a brief comparison with other related literatures. Here, the comparisons would be done between the article and at least four other articles. The first article to be looked into is the ‘Effects of surgery, general anaesthesia, and preoperative epidural analgesia on the immune function ...

Research problem

Sequential Compression Device is well known among the nursing practitioners as a necessary device applicable in intensive care unit, courtesy of its role in the reduction of deep vain thrombosis (DVT) risk in the legs of seriously ill people. Perhaps it is commonly known for its beneficial qualities. That is why little attention has been accorded to the possibility of this device to cause some health complications to the patients. There is documented evidence that when improperly placed or used, sequential compression devices can, in a period of ten to thirteen hours of application, this device causes a patient to develop a foot ...

1. Explain the 4 main classifications of anesthesia, and provide an example of each. Anesthesia is a reversible, pharmacologically induced state of analgesia, loss of skeletal muscle reflexes and/or responsiveness, amnesia, decreased stress response. Depending on the type of anesthesia used, the aforementioned effects may occur as one or they may occur together simultaneously. Generally, there are four major classifications of anesthesia; local, regional, general anesthesia and moderate sedation (Brookside Associates, 2010). General anesthesia (GA) depresses the central nervous system producing a reversible loss of consciousness and skeletal muscle reflexes and analgesia. Basically, general anesthesia has three phases; induction, ...