In everyday language “consciousness” and “conscience” are often used interchangeably, but there is a subtle difference, especially in medical, philosophical or psychological contexts. Consciousness is a neurological function that relates to the alertness of our brain, which can be altered by a variety of factors, including diseases (e.g. meningitis, epilepsy, tumors), injuries (e.g. head trauma, […]

Talking about ANESTHESIA is talking about PROGRESS. Before, surgery was a terrifying last resort in a final attempt to save a life. Few procedures were possible. Superficial surgery, amputation, removal of fungus from cancers, and "cutting for the stone" (the extraction of bladder stones) were truly the only areas where surgeons could operate. The interior […]

Pain, according to the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP), is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated (or similar to that associated) with actual or potential tissue damage. However, not all pain experiences have a physical origin; pain has other dimensions or components that play a fundamental role in how pain is […]

In Spain there is no specific regulation regarding the roles and responsibilities of nursing in the field of Anesthesiology, and the lack of regulation makes it difficult to conceptualize these advanced practice nursing (APN) roles in the same way as in other countries, which is why, at present, they are framed in a paradigm of […]

Anesthesiology today is very different from 40 years ago, as is the nursing profession, but the organizational model has not changed much since then. New fronts have opened up in the work of anesthesiologists: the universalization of major outpatient surgery programs, the pre-anesthetic assessment of all patients, the Acute Pain Units (inpatient care of postoperative […]

For years there has been a belief that newborns perceive pain less and tolerate it better due to their biological immaturity. It was also thought that the inability of infants to verbalize their feelings and express their pain was synonymous with an inability to experience and remember it. To this must be added that in […]

Although “anesthetist” and “anesthesiologist” are used interchangeably in many contexts and even the Dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy of the language considers it valid to use both nouns as synonyms, in medical language and among specialists in Anesthesiology and Resuscitation a distinction is preferred between the two terms. According to the Spanish Society of […]

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