What are the different types of anaesthesia?
Occasionally parents are concerned about anaesthetics for their children because of bad experiences they had with anaesthetics as a child. Anaesthetics have changed and now most people find anaesthesia a pleasant experience as the latest agents produce a feeling of well-being. Premedication often affects the memory after the event so children rarely remember going off to sleep.There is no such thing as a light anaesthetic. Every time someone has an anaesthetic the same procedures and safety considerations are put into place. Only the length of the anaesthetic and the type of surgery varies. Small children and occasionally adults can go to sleep with a potent anaesthetic gas mixed with oxygen and nitrous oxide (laughing gas). The newer gases do not have a particularly unpleasant smell. A drip placed in the vein is a way of Ôfast-trackingÕ the onset of anaesthesia. These drugs cause sleep within a few seconds and rapid awakening at the end of the operation. During the operation it is imp
