Dr. Alopi (Alopi Patel)

And that is now called World Anesthesia Day.

So Queen Victoria actually had many children.

For almost all of her children, she did not have any anesthesia.

There was stigma back in the day about women having pain relief during labor and delivery because it was expected for a

God's intention, right, for the pain to be insufferable, to be able to have a child.

And it wasn't until Queen Victoria herself asked to have chloroform for her eighth baby or something.

And she essentially legitimized it, that you can have childbirth with a pain-relieving substance.

And since then, we've come so far in obstetric anesthesia in terms of

spinal anesthetic, epidural anesthesia for pain relief.

So depending on the types of anesthetics, it can affect their heart rate.

It can affect their blood pressure.

It can affect different types of blood flow, right?

So when the blood pressure goes down, it can affect the blood flow to the brain, to the heart.

We care about all the organs, but really the brain and the heart are the two most important organs that we really think about because we don't want too little oxygen to be in the brain or the heart.

So once the anesthesia enters the system, it's essentially just going in the bloodstream, traveling all across the body, and then being metabolized.

It can be metabolized by the kidneys, the liver, and then inhaled anesthetics are metabolized through the lungs, and then you breathe them out.

So anesthesia in general creates this very relaxing effect, right?

So it creates a slowing down of your nervous system.

So you have your parasympathetic nervous system and your sympathetic nervous system.

Your sympathetic is your