What is it?

Basically, anesthesia is the use of medicine to prevent

the feeling of pain or sensation during surgery or other procedures that might be painful (such as getting stitches or having a wart removed). Given as an injection or through inhaled gases or vapors, different types of anesthesia affect the nervous system in various ways by blocking nerve impulses and, therefore, pain.

 In today's hospitals and surgery centers, highly trained

professionals use a wide variety of safe, modern medications and extremely capable monitoring technology. An anesthesiologist is a doctor who specializes in giving and managing anesthetics the medications that numb an area of the body.

Who started it?

Crawford Williamson Long was the first Doctor to

use anesthesia on March 30, 1842. He removed two tumors from the back of the neck of a patient. That was the first use of modern anesthesia.
William Thomas Green Morton publicly

demonstrated the use of inhaled ether as a surgical anesthetic in 1846. Ether was used as it was a substance powerful enough to dull the pain and agony that had long been associated with surgery.

Different types
local anesthesia
regional anesthesia general anesthesia dissociative anesthesia

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