Application of an anesthesia gives the chance to make treatment not only effective, but also painless that is especially important for children. However whether always use of the general anesthesia is justified, or it can be connected with risks for health and development of the child?
Operation without pain: types of anesthesia
Many medical procedures are so painful that the adult cannot sustain them without anesthesia even and furthermore to the child. Pain and also the fear connected with carrying out surgery are very serious stress for the kid. So, even the simple medical procedure can become the reason of such neurotic frustration as urine incontinence, a sleep disorder, nightmares, a nervous tic, stutter. Painful shock can become even a cause of death.
Helps to avoid unpleasant feelings and to lower a stress from medical procedures use of the anesthetizing medicines. Anesthesia is local – in that case the anesthetizing drug is injected in fabric directly around the struck body. Besides, the anesthesiologist can "turn off" the nervous terminations on which there pass impulses from that part of a body on which operation, in the child's brain is performed.
In both cases a certain part of the body loses sensitivity. At the same time the child remains in full consciousness, though does not feel pain. Local anesthesia works locally and practically does not influence the general condition of an organism. The only danger in this case can be connected with emergence of allergic reaction to medicine. Actually an anesthesia call the general anesthesia which assumes shutdown of consciousness of the patient. Under anesthetic the child not just loses sensitivity to pain and sinks into a deep sleep. Use of various medicines and their combinations gives to physicians the chance if necessary to suppress the arising involuntarily reflex reactions and to lower a muscular tone. Besides, use of the general anesthesia causes full amnesia – after medical intervention the kid will remember nothing the unpleasant feelings experienced on the operating table.
What is the anesthesia dangerous to the child by?
It is obvious that the general anesthesia has a number of advantages, and in cases of difficult operations it certainly is necessary. However parents quite often worry about negative consequences which the anesthesia can cause. Indeed, application of an anesthesia for children is connected with a number of difficulties. So, a children's organism less sensitive to some medicines and in order that the anesthesia worked, their concentration in blood of the child has to be 10 times more, than at adults. The danger of overdose of anesthetics which can cause in the child a hypoxia and other complications from nervous and cardiovascular system, up to cardiac arrest is connected with it. One more danger is connected with the fact that it is more difficult to organism of the child to maintain stable body temperature: thermal control function did not manage to develop properly yet. In this regard the hyperthermia – the violation caused by overcooling or overheating of an organism in rare instances develops. In order that not to allow it, the anesthesiologist has to watch closely the body temperature of the little patient extremely. Alas, there is a danger of allergic reaction to medicine. Besides, a number of complications can be connected also with certain diseases from which the child suffers. For this reason it is so important to tell before operation to the anesthesiologist about all features of an organism of the child postponed earlier diseases. Generally, modern anesthetics are safe, are practically not toxic and in itself do not cause any negative consequences. At competently picked up dosage the experienced anesthesiologist will not allow any complications.