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Dr. Alopi Patel

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What Happens While You're Under Anesthesia?

Most recipes, you need the same ingredients if you're making something like banana muffins, right? But the amount you're making depends on how many people you're making it for. Do you want something more salty or sugary? Whatever.

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What Happens While You're Under Anesthesia?

brain surgery, back surgery, heart surgery. You would not be able to do any of these surgeries, abdominal surgeries, without having the patient completely asleep and paralyzed or their muscles relaxed for the procedure.

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What Happens While You're Under Anesthesia?

brain surgery, back surgery, heart surgery. You would not be able to do any of these surgeries, abdominal surgeries, without having the patient completely asleep and paralyzed or their muscles relaxed for the procedure.

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What Happens While You're Under Anesthesia?

brain surgery, back surgery, heart surgery. You would not be able to do any of these surgeries, abdominal surgeries, without having the patient completely asleep and paralyzed or their muscles relaxed for the procedure.

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What Happens While You're Under Anesthesia?

Yes. The traditional sort of history of anesthesia kind of starts around the mid-1800s. So the most popular form of anesthesia that was studied at that time was chloroform. So ether was another one and nitrous oxide. They're all various sort of inhaled anesthetics that can knock out a patient. The first successful demonstration of anesthesia was in 1846, and this was done by William Morton.

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What Happens While You're Under Anesthesia?

Yes. The traditional sort of history of anesthesia kind of starts around the mid-1800s. So the most popular form of anesthesia that was studied at that time was chloroform. So ether was another one and nitrous oxide. They're all various sort of inhaled anesthetics that can knock out a patient. The first successful demonstration of anesthesia was in 1846, and this was done by William Morton.

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What Happens While You're Under Anesthesia?

Yes. The traditional sort of history of anesthesia kind of starts around the mid-1800s. So the most popular form of anesthesia that was studied at that time was chloroform. So ether was another one and nitrous oxide. They're all various sort of inhaled anesthetics that can knock out a patient. The first successful demonstration of anesthesia was in 1846, and this was done by William Morton.

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What Happens While You're Under Anesthesia?

William Morton was actually a dentist who was experimenting with different types of anesthesia, and ether was the one that he successfully demonstrated. The day that he successfully demonstrated anesthesia was October 16th, 1846, in the Ether Dome in Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. And that is now called World Anesthesia Day.

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What Happens While You're Under Anesthesia?

William Morton was actually a dentist who was experimenting with different types of anesthesia, and ether was the one that he successfully demonstrated. The day that he successfully demonstrated anesthesia was October 16th, 1846, in the Ether Dome in Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. And that is now called World Anesthesia Day.

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What Happens While You're Under Anesthesia?

William Morton was actually a dentist who was experimenting with different types of anesthesia, and ether was the one that he successfully demonstrated. The day that he successfully demonstrated anesthesia was October 16th, 1846, in the Ether Dome in Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. And that is now called World Anesthesia Day.

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What Happens While You're Under Anesthesia?

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.

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What Happens While You're Under Anesthesia?

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.

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What Happens While You're Under Anesthesia?

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.

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What Happens While You're Under Anesthesia?

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

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What Happens While You're Under Anesthesia?

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

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What Happens While You're Under Anesthesia?

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

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What Happens While You're Under Anesthesia?

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.

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What Happens While You're Under Anesthesia?

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.

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What Happens While You're Under Anesthesia?

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.

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What Happens While You're Under Anesthesia?

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.