“How is anesthesia different from a ventilator?”
I am a 25 year old female. I want to know how is anesthesia different from a ventilator?
5 Answers
AnesthesiologistAnesthesiologist
Ventilator is not anesthesia. Ventilation is part of anesthesia simply because the drugs used do depress the ventilatory efforts
You are referring to an anesthesia machine, I assume. An anesthesia is a ventilator, but with the capability of adding anesthetic gas to the system in order to render a patient unconscious. A regular ventilator does not have that capability, it only acts as a means to provide artificial breathing.
A ventilator is a device that assists someone who has a breathing tube placed to maintain proper oxygenation of their body.
Anesthesia is speciality to provide relief of pain and to help patients undergoing surgery to remain free of pain. As critical care specialists we work with patients who may be on a ventilator or place them on a ventilator if asked to or need to insert a breathing tube
Marc A Morales MD
Anesthesia is speciality to provide relief of pain and to help patients undergoing surgery to remain free of pain. As critical care specialists we work with patients who may be on a ventilator or place them on a ventilator if asked to or need to insert a breathing tube
Marc A Morales MD
Ventilator is the machine that breathes for you during surgeries under general anesthesia.
Anesthesia means to make one insensitive to pain ("an" = without, "esthesia" means feeling). A ventilator is a machine which provides or assists a person's ventilation.
