Women who accidentally become pregnant and need to have an abortion may sometimes consider undergoing surgical abortion because the probability of incomplete abortion is lower compared to medical abortion. However, women who undergo abortion surgery for the first time are not familiar with the anesthesia methods used during the surgery, which are divided into general anesthesia and local anesthesia. So, is general anesthesia or local anesthesia used for abortion?
If it is a regular induced abortion surgery, anesthesia is generally not used. If painless abortion or visual painless abortion is chosen, general anesthesia is generally used, and the patient will not feel anything during the entire surgical process. Most of the currently used anesthetics are new types, which can enter a complete sleep state about 30 seconds after preoperative administration.
The entire surgical procedure is performed without the recipient's awareness, and the process is very short, taking only 3-5 minutes. As the surgery is completed and the anesthesia gradually subsides, women who wake up will gradually feel mild abdominal pain.
This is caused by conditioned uterine contractions after abortion surgery, which is a normal postoperative phenomenon. The pain is mostly tolerable and the duration is not too long, so women who need to undergo abortion surgery do not need to worry too much about it.
In addition, women who need to undergo abortion surgery must go to a regular hospital and undergo multiple relevant examinations before the surgery to avoid various adverse factors and minimize the damage to the body caused by abortion.
