The difference between sleep anesthesia and general anesthesia

Anesthesia is a common medical method to relieve patients' pain, and its importance in surgery is self-evident. Especially in today's plastic surgery and medical beauty industry, anesthesia occupies half of the market. However, anesthesia surgery needs to be performed under the guidance of a professional doctor, otherwise it may bring irreparable consequences. Sleep anesthesia and general anesthesia are the more common anesthesia methods. What are the differences between the two? The following article will explain them one by one.

The anesthesiologist is responsible for your life, and the plastic surgeon is responsible for your face.

At present, the most common question asked by many people who seek beauty when consulting relevant doctors is whether they can only undergo simple anesthesia and avoid general anesthesia or intubation anesthesia? In fact, whether or not to have anesthesia, or which method of anesthesia to use, is not a personal choice, but is mainly determined by the method and extent of the operation.

Therefore, it is recommended that those who are not very familiar with anesthesia should first learn the specific knowledge of anesthesia in detail before undergoing plastic surgery. You should know that most of the plastic surgery accidents exposed by the media in recent years are due to errors in the anesthesia process. So, do you dare not pay attention to anesthesia?

After the operation begins, the anesthesiologist needs to monitor the surgeon's vital signs throughout the entire process, ensure the smooth progress of the operation, and respond to various emergencies. When the operation was successfully completed, the doctor took off his clothes and gloves and left the scene. The nurses began to clean up. The anesthesiologist had to sit in the operating room to accompany the patient until he woke up after the operation. His nerves were tense from beginning to end!

What are the methods of anesthesia?

1. Local anesthesia

Local anesthesia is suitable for surgery with minimal trauma. Local anesthesia puts a certain part of the body into an anesthetized state. Local anesthesia is mostly performed by injection, application of anesthetic cream, spray, etc. Under local anesthesia, you will remain awake and comfortable.

The surgeon injects a local anesthetic into

Local anesthesia is generally suitable for double eyelid surgery, canthoplasty, botulinum toxin or hyaluronic acid injection, eyebrow tattooing, hair removal and other projects.

2 Sleep anesthesia

Some people who love beauty will use local anesthesia that makes them conscious at the beginning when undergoing plastic surgery, but many people cannot stand this feeling of uneasiness and will ask the doctor to give them sleeping anesthesia. Normally, the depth of sleeping anesthesia is not high. If necessary, the patient can be woken up during the operation to communicate directly with the doctor.

3. General anesthesia

General anesthesia is suitable for long-term surgery. General anesthesia is like a deep sleep, but slightly different. During general anesthesia, the anesthesiologist will carefully operate to keep you in an unconscious state. When the operation is over, the anesthesiologist will bring you out of the unconscious state and gradually restore you to normal in a very comfortable way. It is generally suitable for facial bone surgeries, such as double jaws, cheekbones, as well as rhinoplasty, prosthetic breast augmentation, etc.

Precautions for fasting before anesthesia

Fasting from food and drink before anesthesia is to ensure that the respiratory tract is not threatened by aspiration or suffocation.

Adults undergoing elective surgery should not eat or drink anything within 12 hours and 4 hours before anesthesia.

If the last meal is very low in fat, you should also fast for at least 8 hours and abstain from drinking for 2 hours.