insufflation anesthesia

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The maintenance of inhalation anesthesia by delivery of anesthetic gases or vapors directly to the airway of an individual.

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Called by the hoity toity term of nasal insufflation, this method was used by some in Asia till a few hundred years ago.
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A procedure to reopen his urinary tract could have been done under local anesthesia.
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He has had operations on both knees, and they had to put him under anesthesia to clean a long gash in his left thigh.
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The story of a wayward anesthesia trainee who took a near fatal dose of fentanyl hit the news this week.
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Someof the injured were being detained right after they awoke from anesthesia.
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There was enough whiskey in the place to provide the new specimen with a near-total anesthesia.
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Anesthesia from it sets in more rapidly and lasts longer than with cocaine.
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While hypnotism can be used to produce anesthesia, it has many disadvantages.
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One element that is extremely important for anesthesia is deep breathing.
Psychotherapy|James J. Walsh
Feldman operated with a pocketknife sterilized in a bottle of expensive Scotch and only anodyne tablets in place of anesthesia.
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