As my mother once told
me having general anesthesia is like dreaming. Your eyes where all wide open
you can see but not feel it’s like you’re in heaven while murmuring and talking
nonsense with all the white things you
see and like your meeting someone there. Shadows are approaching like you’re in
judgment until everything was blank-out.
But as I became a student in anesthesiology I realize it was all part of
the process, the stages including the moment where you have analgesia you can
still talk at this moment but can’t sense anything, the feeling of excitement where
blood and respiratory rate where increase and having the dilation in the pupils
after this stage the next will be skeletal muscles tend to relax and initially
loss of light towards deep sleep. I experience also the same event but it was
only localized only up to feeling no pain and numbness in some part of my oral
cavity by I think it is the same process with different extent of effect.
The quality or state
of being aware of an external object or something within oneself or simply not
feeling any stimuli to react with is defined as consciousness. It is one of the
outcome of Anesthesia a tonic that is induced producing reversible state of amnesia, analgesia, loss of responsiveness, loss of skeletal muscle reflexes or decreased stress response,
or all simultaneously. Currently,
anesthesiology offers advancement as well as enhancement of the drug that is
being utilized by the doctor in a specific treatment which affect mainly the
nervous system which is essential in transmitting all the reaction the body
must need to experience or react with. In recent researches in brain functions
which is a part of CNS it is been discover that ECG(electroencephalogram) helps
monitor the brain activity of a patient when he is in state of anesthesia
feeling all the stages before having the sedation until the effect will
disappear(from deep sleep to consciousness). It is significant especially in
person with disease like epilepsy and schizophrenia and Parkinson’s disease the
researcher use the word altered state of arousal including sleep, coma,
hypnosis, and anesthesia rather than loss of consciousness since Brown consider
that it is more about the brain purpose that promote this occurrence of the nervous
system towards the body. He also makes emphasis that studying the activity of
brain under anesthetic drug can help the vegetative person and comatose person help
bring them out by understanding the cognitive function of the brain as well as
how a person develops his/her mental process and how he/she begins to learn to talk,
to listen, to reason and to solve a problem. Also some anesthetic drug like
Ketamine help in treating psychiatric illness of a patient since it has a
depression effect towards the brain function. It is really Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
how anesthesia works and how it elevates the quality of life of each and every
one of us going on a mild or higher degree of operation each day in every week
in a month or in a year that bring us to unveiling the hidden shade of how
magnificent anesthesia is.
Just remember everything that is
too much is not good.
