The benefits of anesthesia for post-operative recovery

Anaesthesia is an important means of treating diseases for many patients, but post-operative pain is often a major impediment to recovery. Anaesthesia has an indispensable role to play in alleviating post-operative pain and promoting rehabilitation. Post-operative pain, if not effectively controlled, can lead to a series of adverse consequences. Strong pain can give patients a sense of neurological excitement, leading to higher blood pressure and higher heart rate. This not only increases the burden on the heart, but also increases the risk of cardiovascular events such as myocardial infarction and cardiac disorders for patients with cardiovascular diseases themselves. Furthermore, pain reduces the patient ‘ s breathing light and frequency, and can easily lead to a lack of pulmonary aerobics and slurry, increasing the likelihood of lung infection and delaying the recovery of respiratory function. From the musculoskeletal system, pain causes muscle stress and convulsions. Long periods of muscle stress affect the patient ‘ s physical activity and limit his/her early activities and rehabilitation exercise. For example, after abdominal surgery, abdominal stress caused by pain may affect the recovery of gastrointestinal creeping and cause gastrointestinal disorders such as abdominal swelling, enteric infarction, etc. This not only prolongs the patient ‘ s stay in hospital, but may also affect the healing of the surgical cut. The anesthesia has played an important role at this time. Among them, self-control of pain (PCA) is a commonly used and effective method. It allows the patient to control the administration of painkillers on his/her own, within a certain level of safety. The advantage of this approach is that it allows the patient to maintain a relatively stable and effective level of salvaging. Compared to traditional needs-based pain, PCA is more timely and individualized and is effective in avoiding an increase in the pain of patients waiting for treatment by medical personnel. For example, after an osteopaedic surgery, when the pain is more pronounced at night, the patient can relieve the pain by pressing his/her own pressure on the PCA device, thus obtaining a better quality of sleep and facilitating physical recovery. Regional anaesthesia techniques are also outstanding in post-operative pain. For example, epidural pain is often used for abdominal and lower limb surgery. The transmission of pain signals in the surgical area can be effectively prevented through a combination of anaesthesia and painkillers in the epidural cavity. This stinging not only reduces the pain from the mouth, but also has a good effect on the internal pain caused by the operation. After the cervix, excretion pain allows the mother to have early contact with the newborn in a relatively comfortable state, breast-feeding activities, etc., while facilitating uterus contraction and depravity and physical rehabilitation. There is also the outer ecstasy technique, which has had a significant effect on the pain of the limb surgery. An upper limb surgery, for example, allows for the use of neurological blockage of the arms, and the continuation of the acupuncture programme through the holding of a catheter after the end of the operation, which allows the patient to maintain a pain-free upper limb for a longer period of time after the operation or a mild pain. This enables patients to actively cooperate with early rehabilitation training to reduce complications such as rigid joints. In addition to reducing the harm caused by the pain itself, anaesthesia also facilitates the psychological adjustment of the patient. Post-operative pain often creates negative feelings of anxiety, fear, etc., which can be alleviated by effective sedation. When pain is reduced, patients feel better, have more confidence in rehabilitation and are more willing to participate actively in the rehabilitation process, creating a virtuous circle. In addition, good anesthesia helps to reduce the overall demand for painkillers. When pain is effectively controlled, the body’s stress is reduced and the repeated pain does not require a constant increase in the dose of analgesics, thereby reducing the risk of adverse effects associated with analgesics, such as nausea, vomiting, constipation, etc., and further improving the comfort and quality of rehabilitation of patients. In general, anaesthesia is an important safeguard for post-surgery rehabilitation in modern times and can be effective in reducing the suffering of patients, reducing the occurrence of complications, promoting their full physical and psychological recovery and enabling them to return to normal life faster and better after surgery, through a variety of advanced pain and relief techniques and methods.