A nurse is teaching nursing students about inhalation anesthesia and asks, "What is balanced anesthesia?" Which response by a student is correct?
a. "An anesthesia that has a brief induction period with a rapid emergence from its effects."
b. "An inhalation anesthesia that produces both muscle relaxation and unconscious-ness."
c. "An anesthesia that provides maximum analgesia with minimal respiratory side effects."
d. "An anesthesia that combines other drugs with inhalation anesthesia to produce the desired effects."
D
Balanced anesthesia is the use of a combination of drugs, along with an inhaled anesthetic, to produce effects that cannot safely be accomplished with inhalation anesthesia alone. These ad-junct drugs are used to help induce anesthesia, provide muscle relaxation, and increase analgesia so that a lower and safer dose of the inhalation anesthetic can be used. The other three options describe characteristics of an ideal anesthetic, which does not exist; to get these effects, a com-bination of other drugs must be used.
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