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Charles M. Bazzell
Anesthesiologist
Dr. Charles Bazzell is an anesthesiologist practicing in Tucson, Arizona. Dr. Bazzell ensures the safety of patients who are about to undergo surgery. Anestesiologists specialize in general anesthesia, which will (put the patient to sleep), sedation, which will calm the patient or make him or her unaware of the situation, and regional anesthesia, which just numbs a specific part of the body. As an anesthesiologist, Dr. Bazzell also might help manage pain after an operation.
Charles M. Bazzell
- Tucson, Arizona
- MD at University of Kentucky
- Accepting new patients
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What is procedural anesthesia?
Procedural anesthesia generally refers to conscious sedation or, in more anesthesia parlance, MAC, for Monitored Anesthetic Care. MAC delivered by an anesthesiologist or CRNA READ MORE
Procedural anesthesia generally refers to conscious sedation or, in more anesthesia parlance, MAC, for Monitored Anesthetic Care. MAC delivered by an anesthesiologist or CRNA can span a broader range of sedation levels as we are trained in airway mgt and thus can handle times when the patient's level of consciousness may fall below "conscious" sedation such that they require intermittent it even constant airway support. This is where the 2 terms you ask about can become blurred. Procedural sedation, delivered by a nurse not specifically trained for airway management, is limited to sedation levels where loss of airway protective reflexes is not considered a likely possibility. Procedural sedation, or MAC, can may bridge to sedation so deep that airway protection is lost. At that point, technically, the sedation has become a general anesthetic (anesthesia to a level where awareness and the ability to protect one's airway are both expected to be lost).
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