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Requirements of general anaesthesia

Last reviewed dd mmm yyyy. Last edited dd mmm yyyy

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Requirement of anaesthesia include:

  • thorough pre-anaesthetic assessment of fitness
  • patient consent
  • hypnosis or unconsciousness - a sleep-like state in which there is unawareness of surroundings and suppression of reflexes
  • analgesia
  • muscle relaxation - depending on the type of surgery
  • easy reversibility of the induced state
  • maintenance of as near to normal physiology as possible

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