"Thesis statement: In this paper the author will argue that even though there are some dangerous side effects of anesthesia it is better to use it during a surgery then not use it."
Introduction
Books: Title: Counting backwards : a doctor's notes on anesthesia / Henry Jay Przybylo, MD. Author(s): Przybylo, Henry Jay,
Pub. Date: W.W. Norton & Company, [2018]
Material Type: Book
Title: Understanding anesthesia : what you need to know about sedation and pain control / Steven L. Orebaugh.
Author(s): Orebaugh, Steven L.
Pub. Date: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.
Material Type: Book
Fact 1: anesthesia is a combination of medications that put you in a sleep like state or coma.
Fact 3: Anesthesia is more then being asleep because you cant move at all when you are under is.
Fact 5: An anesthesiologist is someone who is specially trained to deal with anesthesia.
Fact 7: General anesthesia might: Take a long time, result in significant blood loss, expose you to a cold environment, and affect your breathing.
Fact 9: people with serious health condition or older people might be at serious risk when under anesthesia.
Fact 1 through 10 are from Mayoclinic.org
Fact 11: a type of anesthesia called local anesthesia numbs a small part of the body, it might be used on a tooth that needs to be pulled out or on a small area around a wound that needs stitches, you are awake during local anesthesia.
Fact 13: General anesthesia is the most dangerous anesthesia to use.
Facts 11 through 14 were from MedlinePlus.
Fact 16: Some studies have said that kids could be effected by the anesthesia but those studies were made on animals not children under going surgery.
Fact 18: The children that went under the study and the children who did had almost no different at all.
Fact 20: “However, interpreting the clinical implications of anesthesia-related neurotoxicity is challenging, and more definitive clinical studies providing high-quality evidence of a relationship between exposure to anesthesia and neurological injury are still required to guide treatment decisions,” O’Leary said.
Fact 22: The most common procedures were operations to fix problems with the ears, mouth, throat, male genital organs or musculoskeletal system.
Fact 24: one drawback of the study is that it wasn't a controlled experiment designed to prove whether or how exposure to general anesthesia during surgery might directly impact brain development in early childhood.
Fact 26: Dr. Andrew Davidson says that the parents of the study should still be reassured.
Fact 28: Davidson also cautions that there are still some studies about anesthesia still linked to behavioral problems.
Fact 30: “However, research is still needed to identify subgroups of children who may have developmental vulnerability to anesthesia exposure,” Sun, who wasn’t involved in the study, said by email
Fact 2: When you are experiencing anesthesia you can not feel any pair because you will be completely unconsious.
Fact 4: When you are under anesthesia your brain can not respond to any pain.
Fact 6: Anesthesia is done so that when you are getting a major surgery you can not feel any pain.
Fact 8: general anesthesia is very safe and almost everyone can use it without issues.
Fact 10: 1 or 2 in every 1,000 people might be awake during anesthesia, and some may even experience pain but this is much rarer.
Fact 12: Regional anesthesia is used for larger areas of the body such as an arm, a leg, or everything below the waist. You may be awake during the procedure, or you may be given sedation. Regional anesthesia may be used during childbirth, a Cesarean section(C-section), or minor surgeries.
Fact 12: General anesthesia effects the whole body, it is used during major surgeries.
Fact 14: Some of the side effects from anesthesia might be: Heart rhythm or breathing problems, an allergic reaction to the anesthesia, delirium after general anesthesia delirium makes people confused, awareness when someone is under general anesthesia.
Fact 15: when a child takes anesthesia it cannot effect there school readiness in any way.
Fact 17: For a current study on anesthesia researchers have used almost 11,000 different pairs of children in a study.
Fact 19: “The findings of the current study should reassure parents of young children who require anesthesia for surgical procedures,” said lead author Dr. James D. O’Leary.
Fact 21: 60% of the kids were two years old when they did the study and almost 80% did not stay in the hospital over night.
Fact 23: The study included children eligible for public and Catholic schools in Ontario, Canada, from 2004 all the way through 2012.
Fact 25: another thing is the analysis kept out kids with with assessments that pointed to potential behavioral, learning or developmental problems.
Fact 27: “This study adds to the increasing data that for the vast majority of cases anesthesia does not have an impact on school readiness and this should be added to the fact that we increasingly think in the majority of cases it does not have an impact on cognition and many other aspects of neurodevelopment,” Davidson, who wasn’t involved in the study, said in a email.
Fact 29: “Based on this study and others, parents whose children are healthy should not delay needed procedures that may require anesthesia,” says Dr. Lena Sun.
