Anaesthesia, analgesia, and the surgical stress response.

Acc © 20 For Describe the physiological changes that occur during surgery. Discuss how a method of anaesthesia or analgesia may be chosen, based on its effect on the stress response. Explain the role of the anaesthetist in attenuating the surgical stress response in conjunction with surgical and other multidisciplinary colleagues. central neural blockade and minimally invasive surgery. General anaesthesia has little effect on cytokine responses as it cannot influence direct tissue trauma. The stress response to surgery is a pattern of physiological and pathophysiological changes that occur in response to the stimulus of surgery. The response consists of two broad categories: