"One of the few places that you can really get a bit of a handle on what consciousness is, is what turns it off and when you're thinking about general anesthetics."
"Ether paved the way for longer and less scream-inducing surgical procedures."
"I actually really like the feeling of being under anesthetic."
"Is this how aquariums give anesthesia to their fish so that surgery can be safely performed?"
"Tolerance to Anesthesia increases... receptors change throughout your brain."
"Lying to anesthesia can be really dangerous."
"The dentist asked me once more if I felt the gas. I told him that it was starting to take effect but was not very strong."
"The most potent anaesthetic is methoxy fluorine at 0.25%."
"I'm numbing your nerves so that you don't feel pain."
"The marvel of anesthesia—its ability to temporarily suspend consciousness—touches upon one of the most significant mysteries in both science and philosophy: the genesis of consciousness from the physical processes within our brains."
"It's their first experience with anesthesia."
"What happens when you're under anesthesia in that medical coma but your body is still keeping score because nothing is sealed in your body? Everything is connected, including your pre-operative anxiety state."
"for for me dude it was so weird I mean they gave me gas or whatever but I'm laying on my back and I have a nurse over me and a doctor and they're just talking about their day and I'm just laying on this table and I'm like so you're aware but you're just out of it"
"Anesthetic effects: light anesthesia. The retina is pretty resistant to Anesthesia because it's a very old system."
"When I went in to get put under I couldn't remember that splinter time between the injection and when the dentist's assistant woke me up letting me know everything went well."
"Chloroform is a sweet smelling colorless liquid originally used as an anesthetic in the 1800s."
"These N sub M antagonists are also known as neuromuscular blockers and they are loved by your anesthesiologist because your anesthesiologist has two jobs in life: number one, to knock you unconscious, and number two is to paralyze your muscles."
"It is scary. I remember I went under for my sinus surgery, and it took too long and the drugs kicked in before I went under, and it was the best feeling I've ever had in my entire life."
"Profit are a very potent anesthetic, they're like a drug."
"The thing about anesthesia is to be prepared for what you don't know what's going to happen because 90 times it goes as you plan and the other time it just really doesn't. So the key is to be prepared, prepare, prepared."
"Dr. Vaughn switched to using topical anesthesia for cataract surgery after an accidental discovery."
"The kind of anesthetic that when it's administered the anesthesiologist says count backward from 100 and you get to about 99."
"The back of your throat will be sprayed with a topical anesthetic to numb it out and so you don't even feel the tube and so you don't gag."
"Music listeners consumed about 15% less anesthesia." - Dr. Ani Patel
"anesthesia is like the ocean they are both powerful beasts and you have to earn their respect otherwise they can take your life at the blink of an eye"
"I'm just nervous to go under the surgery even though I'm not gonna feel anything, of course I'm gonna be up, you don't feel anything, that's the good part, you know."
"he said oh you big oh you real big but he didn't give me enough [ __ ] I still woke up during the procedure"
"The best feeling in the world that day was feeling that cold, weird, icy sensation of the anesthesia hitting my veins."
"Howard Nietzermann is Cass Corby professor and chair of the department of anesthesiology and perioperative medicine at University Hospitals and at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine."
"I chose not to have the anesthesia."
"Anesthesia risk, age in and of itself is not a risk factor."
"We go in and we do a dental block like you're at the dentist and really numb it up well."
"Anesthesia today is the safest it has ever been in history."
"Epinephrine can prolong the shorter acting local anesthetics like lidocaine, enhancing the duration and quality of anesthesia."
"Our comprehensive review covers decades of pharmacology topics, providing a deep dive into anesthesia pharmacology."
"Anesthesia is general, regional, or local."
"It is a state of reversible controlled unconsciousness."
"Anesthesia is a drug-induced reversible state of unconsciousness and no pain sensation."
"It's a really good anesthetic agent to induce an animal under anesthetic and then transfer them."
"What a wonderful discussion on anesthesia, I always love the way you break that down."
"General anesthesia is a medically induced coma with loss of protective reflexes."
"Malignant hyperthermia is a disease of anesthesia specifically in which volatile anesthetics and succinylcholine are the triggers."
"Mac is defined as the concentration of the inhaled anesthetic in the alveoli of the lung at steady state at which 50% of patients will not move to surgical incision."
"The mechanism of general anesthesia is incompletely understood."
"The blood gas partition coefficient is our next topic."
"The lower the blood gas partition coefficient, the lower the solubility in the blood."
"General anesthetic is bloody amazing."
"After Queen Victoria gave birth to her 8th child using chloroform in 1853, it became widely used in operating theatres."
"Anesthesia is a means to an end, and we are doing this for a reason, usually for some diagnostic or surgical purpose."
"That's why anesthesia is so cool."
"FIU has one of the top five anesthesia programs in the state of Florida."
"I'm wearing scrubs today because today we're going to actually start doing a local anesthesia injection."
"Nurse anesthetists or CRNAs are nurses who have completed additional training in anesthesia administration."
"If your heart and lungs are healthy enough such that you can climb up two flights of stairs without chest pain or trouble breathing, your body is more or less physically ready to undergo anesthesia."
"Anesthesia is the closest thing to death there is."
"There's an increased sensitivity to many of our anesthetics, and MAC decreases about 6% per decade after age 40."
"Epinephrine prolongs numbness, reduces toxicity, and promotes hemostasis."
"The biggest difference is sevoflurane smells better and they wake up faster."
"Anesthesia is a state of temporary induced loss of sensation or awareness."
"Propofol is called the milk of amnesia because of its white milky color and because it induces amnesia."
"Anesthesia became heralded as one of the greatest gifts ever made to suffering humanity."
"The triad of anesthesia: a hypnotic agent to induce unconsciousness, an analgesic for pain, and sometimes muscle relaxation."
"In anesthesia, there's always a million ways to accomplish the same goals, and there is never one right way."
"Anesthesia really gives you an opportunity to do a lot of good work and make a difference."
"Malignant hyperthermia is a possible complication, but usually the effect of anesthesia is hypothermia and hypotension."
"Anesthesia was a big step in the history of medicine."
"It's very rewarding to take a patient through an anaesthetic and to have them wake up on the other side and be so thankful that they're awake."
"An anesthesia breathing circuit is an integral part of an anesthesiologist's armamentarium."
"Propofol has a very rapid onset of action."
"It is the most commonly used induction agent now."
"Queen Victoria used chloroform as an anesthetic drug during the birth of Prince Leopold."
"Anesthesia is obviously awesome; that's why I do it and it's super fun."
"The era of modern anesthesia begins on this date and is celebrated each year as World Anesthesia Day."
"The discovery of anesthesia was probably a pivotal point from a humanity perspective."
"...an early form of anesthesia was first used at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston..."
"General anesthesia is a collection of four conditions: you're unconscious, it's not supposed to hurt, you're amnestic, and it's nice if you're not moving around while the surgeons are operating."
"The Bane system has been advocated as a universal anesthesia system because it can be used in both spontaneous and controlled ventilation."
"I like to add ketamine because propofol will hit the GABA receptors, ketamine will hit the glutamate receptors, particularly the NMDA ones."
"James Simpson discovered the effects of chloroform."
"Anesthesia is 95% boredom and 5% sheer terror."
"Premedication, including the use of analgesic agents, should be considered for all elective and semi-elective intubations."
"A sound knowledge of pathophysiology will allow us to conduct safe anesthesia."
"My technique is less invasive because it could be done under local anesthesia."
"General anesthesia is a drug-induced reversible state that consists of unconsciousness, amnesia, analgesia, akinesia, with stability and control of the principle physiologic systems."
"The vapor pressure of Sevoflurane is 157 millimeters of mercury at one atmosphere sea level."
"Anesthesia charge is calculated by adding the base, time, physical status, qualifying circumstances, and then multiplying by the conversion factor."
"What I recollect from going actually under was that extremely warm feeling all over, like a warm glow."
"Eventually, Church's student Stephen Kleene went to the dentist, the dentist put him under with laughing gas, and while he was under, Kleene figured out how to do minus one."