Ch. 11 general and local anesthetics

Question 1

adjunct anesthetics

Answer 1

drugs used in combo w/ anesthetic drugs to control the adverse effects of anesthetics or help maintain the anethestic state in the pt

Question 2

anesthesia

Answer 2

loss of the ability to feel pain resulting from the admin of an anesthetic drug

Question 3

anesthetics

Answer 3

drugs that depress the CNS or peripheral nerves to produce decreased or loss of consciousness or muscle relaxation

Question 4

balanced anesthesia

Answer 4

practice of using combos of different drug classes rather than a single drug to produce anesthesia

Question 5

general anesthesia

Answer 5

drug-induced stated in which the CNS nerve impulses are altered to reduce pain and other sensations throughout the entire body; normally involves complete loss of consciousness and depression of normal respiratory drive

Question 6

local anesthesia

Answer 6

drug-induced state in which peripheral or spinal nerve impulses are altered to reduce or eliminate pain and other sensations in tissues innervated by these nerves

Question 7

malignant hyperthermia

Answer 7

genetically linked major adverse reaction to general anesthesia characterized by a rapid rise in body temp, as well as tachycardia, tachypnea, and sweating

Question 8

moderate sedation

Answer 8

milder form of general anesthesia that causes partial or complete loss of consciousness but does not generally reduce normal respiratory drive (aka conscious sedation)

Question 9

overton-meyer theory

Answer 9

theory that describes the relationship between the lipid solubility of anesthetic drugs and their potency

Question 10

spinal anesthesia

Answer 10

local anesthesia induced by injection of an anesthetic drug near the spinal cord to anesthetize nerves that are distal to the site of injection (aka intra-spinal anesthesia)