World Anesthesia Day 2021: Everything You Need to Know About this Day

Each year, on 16th October World Anesthesia day is celebrated, the above day is also known as National Anesthesia Day or Ether day in few nations. The above event is considered to be one of the significant event in the history of medicine.

In the year, 1846, the 1st successful demonstration of diethyl ether anesthesia was made.

Anesthesia is a state of controlled at the same time, temporary loss of both sensation as well as awareness, which has been induced for medical purposes and demonstration of diethyl ether anesthesia in 1846, was the 1st step towards it.

Date and significance

The above day is one of the crucial days, as it is marked the discovery, which aimed at patients to obtain the varied benefits of surgical treatment without any pain. This day is celebrated on the 16th October, every year.

History

Around 173 years, ago, W.T. G Morton made the discovery of the 1st official successful demonstration of ether as and anesthesia, which heralded the era of the practice of anesthesiology on 16th October. Across the world, special events have been organized in order to commemorate the world Anesthesia Day.

Anesthesia is definitely one of the significant discoveries in the history of medicine, the above discovery has helped completely revolutionize the quality of healthcare, which the patients tend to receive, it is almost impossible for one to imagine healthcare without the application of anesthesia.

General anesthesia: Patients become unconscious and feel nothing. Patients tend to receive medicine by breathing it or through an IV.

Local Anesthesia: Here, the patient tend to remain wide awake during the surgery, medicines are injected to numb a small area.

Regional Anesthesia: in this scenario, the patients are awake and parts of the body are asleep.