Anaesthesia

General anaesthesia

During a general anaesthetic, your consciousness is switched off. The patient is put into an artificial deep sleep, so to speak; the sensation of pain is switched off and reflexes are dampened. This is of great advantage for certain operations. By means of new anaesthesia procedures, the respective depth of anaesthesia can be adapted to the needs of the individual patient.

Regional anaesthesia

During a partial anaesthetic, the affected region of the body is made painless. There are basically 3 types of regional anaesthesia:

• Forms of spinal anaesthesia
  A local anaesthetic is administered under local anaesthesia (close to the spinal cord). This technique, which has been tried and tested for decades, is mainly used for operations in the lower body region (hip operations, knee operations, etc.).
• Peripheral nerve blocks
  Individual regions of the body can be made insensitive by blocking individual nerves with local anaesthetics. This type of regional anaesthesia is mainly used for operations in the shoulder area, for elbow and hand operations, but also for operations on the knee or ankle joint.
• Intravenous regional anaesthesia
  With this procedure, the anaesthetic is injected directly into a vein. This simple method is mainly used for minor procedures in the hand area.

Combined anaesthesia procedures

For special operations (abdominal operations, major shoulder operations) it is advisable to use a combined anaesthetic procedure (general and regional anaesthesia). In this case, regional anaesthesia is mainly used for pain management after the operation. In special cases, a regional anaesthesia procedure or local anaesthesia is combined with sedation (sleep-like state).

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