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• Bier local anesthesia — Bier block …   Medical dictionary

• Bier block — anesthesia is an intravenous regional anesthesia technique in which an extremity (generally an arm) is made numb for surgery by injecting a local anesthetic solution into a vein after the blood has been squeezed out of the extremity and a… …   Wikipedia

• Bier block — regional anesthesia by intravenous injection, used for surgical procedures on the arm below the elbow or the leg below the knee; performed in a bloodless field maintained by a pneumatic tourniquet that also prevents the anesthetic from entering… …   Medical dictionary

• Anesthesia — Not to be confused with Paresthesia. For other uses, see Anesthesia (disambiguation). Anesthesia, or anaesthesia (see spelling differences; from Greek αν , an , without ; and αἴσθησις, aisthēsis, sensation ), traditionally meant the condition of… …   Wikipedia

• anesthesia — /an euhs thee zheuh/, n. 1. Med. general or local insensibility, as to pain and other sensation, induced by certain interventions or drugs to permit the performance of surgery or other painful procedures. 2. Pathol. general loss of the senses of… …   Universalium

• Bier amputation (operation) block (anesthesia) — (byār) [August Karl Gustav Bier, German surgeon, 1861–1949] see under amputation and block …   Medical dictionary

• Anesthesia — Loss of feeling or awareness. A local anesthetic causes loss of feeling in a part of the body. A general anesthetic puts the person to sleep. * * * 1. Loss of sensation resulting from pharmacologic depression of nerve function or from neurologic… …   Medical dictionary

• intravenous regional anesthesia — Bier block …   Medical dictionary

• intravenous anesthesia — 1. anesthesia produced by introduction of an anesthetic agent into a vein, usually in a limb to which a pneumatic tourniquet has been applied. 2. Bier block …   Medical dictionary

• Tourniquet — A tourniquet is a constricting or compressing device used to control venous and arterial circulation to an extremity for a period of time. Pressure is applied circumferentially upon the skin and underlying tissues of a limb; this pressure is… …   Wikipedia

• Surgical tourniquet — Surgical tourniquets prevent blood flow to a limb and enable surgeons to work in a bloodless operative field. This allows surgical procedures to be performed with improved precision, safety and speed. Tourniquets are widely used in orthopedic and …   Wikipedia