What Is the Difference Between Anesthesia and Sedation?

Sedatives are medicines with sedative and sleep effects. It should be taken in strict accordance with the instructions or under the guidance of professionals, which is beneficial to the patient's physical health and life. The benefits of tranquilizers to the human body include at least calming and sleeping. Sedatives can also effectively prevent mania and effectively treat depression. Sedatives are also effective anxiolytics.

Tranquilizer

Sedatives are medicines with sedative and sleep effects. It should be taken in strict accordance with the instructions or under the guidance of professionals, which is beneficial to the patient's physical health and life. The benefits of tranquilizers to the human body include at least calming and sleeping. Sedatives can also effectively prevent mania and effectively treat depression. Sedatives are also effective anxiolytics.
Chinese name
Tranquilizer
Function
Good for sedation and sleep
Belong to
Common drugs
Precautions
Should not take large doses at one time
Medium-dose sedatives can effectively avoid the serious harm of insomnia, improve sleep quality, and help depressed people to calm down. However, it is not advisable to take large doses at one time. Not recommended for young children and pregnant women.
There are many types of sedatives. As for the subjects to be administered: for psychiatric patients, general patients, normal people, children, for example: chlorpromazine used by psychiatric patients, it has a good sedative effect on mania, but the toxic and side effects are very large, and the general The diazepam (diazepam) used by patients has a very good sedation effect for general patients, and has a small side effect. An anesthetic sedative. Besides, most cold medicines used by the normal population contain calming ingredients caffeine, so if you have taken a cold medicine, Want sleep. Children's sedative safety requirements are even higher. The difference between sedatives and anesthetics: Anesthetics are mainly used in surgery. Commonly used are phenobarbital, pronucaine, lidocaine, ether and chloroform, but a small amount of anesthetic also has a sedative effect, and large doses of sedatives also There will be anesthetic effect, the two are intertwined, the main difference is the quantitative difference.

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