Discussions Here are the top 10 topics visitors are searching. Heart Disease 8. Salads Anesthetics, Major Major general anesthetics are used to make people unconscious during surgery.
Major anesthetics circulate through the entire body and have stronger actions on the nervous system.
Major anesthetics commonly cause nausea upon waking. Administration of 1 gram of powdered ginger root in capsules one hour before surgery has led to reduction in nausea and vomiting as effectively as the antinausea drug metoclopramide in a double-blind study. These results have been independently confirmed. Due to ginger's potential effect on blood clotting, a surgeon should be informed about ginger use prior to surgery. Major anesthetics infrequently cause liver damage.