Showing posts with label anesthesia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label anesthesia. Show all posts

8/07/2008

Uses and origin of hypnosis

Already in ancient times was practiced hypnosis as a method of healing. Being based on the suggestion and lack of stimulation outside the body, this system was used in ancient time to relieve pain and cure ills of the most natural way. Its origins lead us to the pharaohs of Egypt and ancient Greece, but in the Middle Ages, the Inquisition declared sorcerers to hypnotized; much this has helped to create a dark legend around him.

However, in the present century, and with the major scientific advances, is ultimately to give Caesar what is Caesar's and put this science in its deserved place.
It found that the suggestion is a valuable aid in all kinds of healings, both in medicine and in psychiatry and psychoanalysis, hypnosis is more than just an alternative way to heal.

Currently, asthma, pain, mental trauma, drug addiction or insomnia can be treated through hypnosis.
The results are optimal and even more so when we consider that, by not having to resort to drugs, surgery or medication, side effects do not exist.

Freud used this technique to dive into the unconscious of their patients; today is still using the facts to revive the memory that has left side, go back to the infancy of the sick and "read" in his brain the origin of their traumas more recondite.

Dentists around the world, often employing; anesthesia obtained through hypnosis is equal or even better, that achieved by chemicals.

7/24/2008

Cerclage uterus

The cerclage, is an intervention that involves sewing the cervix, to prevent it from being prematurely dilate, and there is a premature birth.

To this end, using a wire or tape special silk or nylon, not melts and also must withdraw at the end of pregnancy, preferably at 38 weeks gestation.

Is often necessary to practice at about 0.5 per cent of pregnancies. The opportune moment to realize, is between 12 and 16 weeks, but it can be done from the 8th or 10th. If there are relevant precedents of insufficient cervix, and if you agree with ultrasound checks, pregnancy is well .

It is even more effective if the practice prophylactically, that is, before the cervix has begun to dilate. It should be done also with the bag full and amniotic after completely sure that there is no infection.

As for the anesthesia, used two types: general or epidural. Neither affects both the baby because she was responsible for individuals specializing in anesthetize pregnant.

If requested by the obstetrician, a cerclage uterus, there was no reason to worry, because the method offers sufficient guarantees of success whatsoever.