Before your operation you will meet an important specialist physician. This doctor has the critical responsibility for your welfare when you undergo surgery - your anesthesiologist....
GENERAL ANESTHESIA
General Anesthesia is a technique during which the patient is rendered unconscious. General Anesthesia provides analgesia (you have no pain), amnesia (you are unaware and have no memory)....
REGIONAL ANESTHESIA
Regional Anesthesia involves blocking sensations to one part of the body. By injecting local anesthetic (or numbing medicine) around a group of nerves, the anesthesia provider can block....
LOCAL ANESTHESIA
Local anesthesia refers to temporarily numbing a small area by injecting local anesthetic into the skin so that minor procedures like stitching cuts can be done painlessly....
LABOR ANALGESIA
In most hospital labor suites today, the most common form of pain control for the woman in labor is Continuous Lumbar Epidural Analgesia also known as a Labor Epidural....
SURGERY and PAIN
The site of the surgery has a profound effect upon the degree of postoperative pain a patient may suffer. Operations on the thorax and upper abdomen are more painful....
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On May 28th 2010, in Pisa, is suddenly dead Francesco Mazzanti MD, A Gentle Man and a Gentleman, Teacher of Anesthesia and sincere Friend. We should all be thankful that we were given the chance to have known a man named Francesco.
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