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[Premedication. Pharmacologic preparation prior to regional or general anesthesia]. 1989

J C Raeder

Patient safety and patient well-being are indications for premedication prior to regional or general anaesthesia. Patient well-being may be improved by anxiolytic acting premedication or analgetic premedication to patients in pain. Side-effects of premedication, as anticholinergic effects or emesis, should be avoided. In outpatient clinics it is important to avoid premedication regimens which may prolong patient recovery after the procedure. The paper discusses the principles of premedication, and includes a survey of the main drugs presently available for this purpose.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D011229	Preanesthetic Medication	Drugs administered before an anesthetic to decrease a patient's anxiety and control the effects of that anesthetic.	Medication, Preanesthetic,Medications, Preanesthetic,Preanesthetic Medications
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000762	Anesthesia Recovery Period	The period of emergence from general anesthesia, where different elements of consciousness return at different rates.	Recovery Period, Anesthesia,Anesthesia Recovery Periods,Period, Anesthesia Recovery,Periods, Anesthesia Recovery,Recovery Periods, Anesthesia
D000768	Anesthesia, General	Procedure in which patients are induced into an unconscious state through use of various medications so that they do not feel pain during surgery.	Anesthesias, General,General Anesthesia,General Anesthesias
D000772	Anesthesia, Local	A blocking of nerve conduction to a specific area by an injection of an anesthetic agent.	Anesthesia, Infiltration,Local Anesthesia,Neural Therapy of Huneke,Huneke Neural Therapy,Infiltration Anesthesia