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7 - Hypnotic Effect: Inducing Unconsciousness and Emergence from Anaesthesia

from Section 2 - Targeting Effects

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 December 2019

By
Sergio Vide ,
Catarina Nunes  and
Pedro Amorim
Edited by
Pedro L. Gambús  and
Jan F. A. Hendrickx
Pedro L. Gambús
Affiliation:
Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, Spain
Jan F. A. Hendrickx
Affiliation:
Aalst General Hospital, Belgium
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Summary

General anaesthesia (GA) is a reversible drug-induced state of altered arousal required for more than 60,000 surgical procedures each day in the USA alone, making it one of the most common manipulations of the brain and central nervous system [1]. It comprises several specific behavioural and physiological end-points – unconsciousness, amnesia, analgesia and akinesia – with concomitant stability of the autonomic, cardiovascular, respiratory and thermoregulatory systems [2, 3].

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Personalized Anaesthesia
Targeting Physiological Systems for Optimal Effect
 , pp. 103 - 116
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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