9^th International Anesthesia and Pain Medicine Conference

Anesthetics Impact on Brains

Anesthetics drugs primarily act on receptors located in the brain to change their oscillations in the brain circuits in particular ways thereby preventing neurons in different brain regions from communicating with each other and leading to a state of consciousness that it is much more similar to a coma than to sleep. Anesthetics exert their amnesic, anesthetic and analgesic effects by acting on various neuronal membrane proteins in the central nervous system. The selection of applicable anaesthesia medicines and protocol is obligatory especially in cases with pre-existing central nervous system diseases to expand anaesthesia effectiveness and insure patient safety.