Anesthesia is more than just an injection. It is painless, safe and comfortable, making it the first choice for patients.

Nowadays, more and more people realize that anesthesia is more than just an injection. With the continuous development of modern medicine, people have higher and higher requirements for comfortable medical care, and painless, safe and comfortable medical care have become the first choice for patients.

The patient woke up from the painless gastroenteroscopy as if it was a dream

In recent years, with the high incidence of gastrointestinal tumors and the improvement of people's awareness of prevention, the demand for gastrointestinal endoscopy has gradually increased. Many people have unforgettable memories of ordinary gastroscopy: a thin tube is inserted from the mouth into the stomach, and they want to vomit out all their internal organs. The process is really uncomfortable, and the patient's non-cooperation also more or less affects the examination results.

Painless gastroenteroscopy allows patients to complete the entire examination and treatment process in a painless state, reducing pain and discomfort, alleviating patients' fear and improving their tolerance. Gastrointestinal motility slows down under sedation, making it easier for doctors to observe the gastrointestinal tract, with no blind spots, high diagnostic rate and good results. Many patients will tell the anesthesiologist after waking up that the whole process was like a sweet dream.

In the minds of many women, giving birth is a painful experience both physically and mentally. In recent years, labor analgesia has greatly reduced the pain and discomfort of parturients, comforted patients, relieved anxiety, and provided both physical and psychological comfort. When the anesthesiologist slowly injected the cool liquid into the epidural space of the parturient, the painful expression on the parturient's face gradually disappeared.

Old age is no longer a "forbidden zone" for surgical anesthesia

As human life expectancy continues to increase, the number of elderly patients undergoing surgical operations has also gradually increased. In the past, people over 80 years old with femoral head necrosis would not undergo surgery, which would lead to worsening of the condition and inability to get out of bed, which not only affected the quality of life of the elderly, but also increased the risk of complications and even loss of life.

Nowadays, medical technology continues to advance, with the introduction of advanced medical equipment, the use of new anesthetic drugs and the latest anesthesia management methods, which have ensured the safety of anesthesia and allowed patients to recover faster after anesthesia. At the same time, the concepts of patients' families have also changed significantly. Everyone hopes that the elderly can live a quality and dignified life in their later years.

Properly handling various emergencies before, during and after anesthesia is the primary measure to ensure the health of elderly patients. According to statistics, Zhongda Hospital successfully performs thousands of general anesthesia surgeries for people over 80 years old every year, mainly hip replacements, hernia repairs, prostate and bladder tumor surgeries, lung cancer surgeries and digestive tract tumor surgeries.

Therefore, advanced age alone is not a contraindication for surgical anesthesia. The risk of anesthesia is often related to the number and severity of coexisting diseases.

Refined anesthesia management is becoming increasingly important

There are only minor surgeries, but no minor anesthesia. For some patients with multiple comorbidities and older age, anesthesiologists are more needed to conduct preoperative evaluations, which greatly reduces complications and mortality. Many hospitals have set up special anesthesia clinics to conduct perioperative evaluations for inpatients and pre-anesthesia evaluations for outpatients. Pre-anesthesia risk assessment includes anesthesia risk and surgical risk, which helps surgeons further evaluate risks and ensure smooth recovery of patients after surgery.

Implementing refined anesthesia management during surgery is not only about ensuring that there is no pain, but also about managing the patient's various physiological parameters based on the characteristics of the patient and the surgery to ensure stable vital signs.

In addition, postoperative follow-up is also very important. The hospital's anesthesia department has a special postoperative follow-up team to ensure that patients recover smoothly from anesthesia after surgery, without anesthesia complications, and to ensure good postoperative analgesia. Finally, in particular, the anesthesia department of Zhongda Hospital actively participates in the diagnosis and treatment of abnormal conditions of patients after surgery, promptly discovers changes in the condition, and promptly and correctly handles them to ensure patient safety.

As comfortable medical treatment gradually becomes an important development trend of clinical medicine in my country, more and more patients hope to achieve painless examination and treatment. Anesthesiologists are the main force of painless medical treatment and comfortable diagnosis and treatment.

Modern anesthesiology is not limited to painlessness in the operating room, but also covers all areas of perioperative medical safety. On the basis of ensuring surgical safety, anesthesiologists will increasingly go outside the operating room to protect the health of patients.