Importance of Anaesthesia for Operative Treatment

Summary

For long centuries surgical interventions and wounds care have accompanied the mankind. Not earlier than in the half of19th century it came to the discovery and introduction of effective and safe anaesthesia.The surgeon no more had to operateas quickly as possible to shorten the suffering of the patient. He could concentrate on the exact preparation of tissues, onthe quiet discrimination of local pathology and on the realization of most appropriate therapeutic procedure. After thegeneral acceptation of the principle of wound protection from infection and of the introduction of continuous control ofgeneral state of operated patients, the enormous development of surgical specializations was initiated.The surgical therapyis now available to patients of all age groups, starting from the first day after birth. For surgical specialities anaesthesia isof basic importance.

Key words:
anaesthesia – ether inhalational anaesthesia – healer – surgery – anaesthesiology