Outline of anesthesia

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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to anesthesia:

Anesthesia – pharmacologically induced and reversible state of amnesia, analgesia, loss of responsiveness, loss of skeletal muscle reflexes or decreased fight-or-flight response, or all simultaneously. This allows patients to undergo surgery and other procedures without the distress and pain they would otherwise experience. An alternative definition is a "reversible lack of awareness," including a total lack of awareness (e.g. a general anesthetic) or a lack of awareness of a part of the body such as a spinal anesthetic.

What type of thing is anesthesia?

Anesthesia can be described as all of the following:

Types of anesthesia

History of anesthesia

Plants/animals

People

Compounds

General anesthetic drugs

Anesthetic techniques

Airway management
Anesthesia provision in the US
Capnography
Concentration effect
Dogliotti's principle
Drug-induced amnesia
Fink effect
Intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring
Laryngoscopy
Nerve block

Complications

Measurements

Instruments used in anesthesiology

Fields of study

Professions

Organizations

Anesthesia publications

Persons influential in anesthesia

References

External links

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