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What is anesthesia? What is anesthesiology?

April 26, 2017anesthesia anesthesiology

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What is anesthesia? What is anesthesiology?

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The term Anesthesia was first used by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. in 1846, and can refer to either the state of a patient under the influence of anesthesia or to the actual combination of medications used to induce the state of anesthesia in a patient. The goal of general anesthesia is to produce a state where the patient is pain free, asleep, without any memory of the surgery, motionless, and unresponsive to pain.