Anesthesia - a very serious part of any surgery, including abdominoplasty. Select the type of anesthesia may be dictated by how invasive surgery is, what is the general health of the patient where the operation will be carried out, who will introduce the anesthetic, and other factors. Patients should discuss with your doctor the various options of anesthesia before surgery.

What is anesthesia during abdominoplasty

The most obvious answer to this question - anesthesia is needed to keep the patient feeling pain and immobilize him. However, this feature is not restricted to anesthesia.

Consciously you can understand the difference between a cut and a cut that makes the surgeon, but the body that do not. As soon as the body detects any damage, it begins to react to it: the heart rate increases, blood pressure rises, and the body starts the process aimed at restoring the damaged area. Anesthesia blocks this process as long as it continues to act.

There are several features of anesthesia:

• Anesthesia;
• Amnestic function - the patient is left memories of operation. The fact that the painful memories may slow the recovery process of the body, and such artificial amnesia is beneficial to the patient;
• Anesthesia immobilizes the patient;
• Anesthesia stabilizes indicators such as blood pressure, heart rate, respiratory rate.

During abdominoplasty Abdominoplasty - Operating method for removing excess fat   anesthetist can use the drug or combination of drugs having more of the following features. How effective will run a particular anesthetic depends on the body, health, patient taking medication, strength or concentration of the drugs used.

All this is an anesthesiologist must consider in their work. Some patients have a high tolerance anesthetics, that is, they need a large dose of drugs than most people, ceteris paribus. Probably all of us have met people who can drink a couple of cups of coffee, and soon after that sleep deep sleep, as well as those who can not sleep through the night, if you drink at least one cup of coffee after dinner. Likewise, all people react differently to anesthesia. If you or your close relatives ever had problems with anesthetics, be sure to tell your doctor who will perform the abdominoplasty.

Types of anesthesia for abdominoplasty

• Local anesthesia

Local anesthesia is used for pain relief in a relatively small area. Typically, it is used during dental operations, and if, for example, the patient is cut out and it requires sutures. As a rule, abdominoplasty local anesthesia is not used, but if the operation is limited to liposuction, doctors can use local anesthesia combined with sedatives.

• Regional anesthesia

With this type of anesthesia anesthetized the whole area of ​​the body, but the patient remains conscious. A classic example - anesthesia used during labor. However, abdominoplasty regional anesthesia is rarely used.

Regional anesthesia is sometimes also referred to as blocking nerve: the drug is administered in a nerve cluster, which is responsible for the sensitivity in a certain area of ​​the body. Sometimes the injection itself can cause significant discomfort, but it soon passes as the anesthetic works very quickly. During abdominoplasty regional anesthesia is usually used in conjunction with a sedative.

• Sedatives

Sedatives may be given to the patient orally or administered by intravenous infusion (intravenous infusion, WI). In this large group of medications include drugs that calm the patient or induce sleep. In addition, they may to some extent prevent the formation of memories.

MI may be used in combination with oral administration of sedatives, and the patient should take the drug orally before VI will be applied. Sometimes sedatives are fed in a gaseous state, but also, often in combination with VI.

Typically, VI begins before the patient goes directly to the operating room. The drug is administered through a catheter with sterile saline. Brine is needed to prevent dehydration during and after the operation.

Usually catheter VI introduced into the vein on the forearm or the crook of the elbow, at least - in the brush. Thereafter bruise may remain.

Sedative effect is felt almost immediately - within a few seconds after the brine add a sedative. The first impression may resemble a heat wave moving up the arm, into which the drug, but very quickly the patient is immersed in a relaxed state or a dream - depending on what kind of medication, and how much is used.

Oral sedatives in the form of tablets or capsules (eg, Valium and alprazolam) take about an hour before the procedure. Sometimes they are encouraged to take, even if it is used in general anesthesia - to relieve the stress that some patients before surgery can be very strong.

• General anesthesia

Medication for general anesthesia is fed as a gas, or a method VI. In the first case is that the patient will remember, it depends on the dose and type of drug used - consciousness can be switched off gradually, and the patient will remain memories of how the world around us slowly become cloudy and dark vision, or a person instantly plunged into unconsciousness. When using the VI patients usually only remember the time of entering the drug.

If you have asthma, if you often get sick with bronchitis, or if you have any breathing disorders, please inform the anesthesiologist.