No one likes to feel any pain if they can avoid it. That’s exactly what anesthesia does — it stops the patient from feeling pain during a medical procedure. Modern local anesthesia and sedation make virtually any medical procedure short of open surgery doable, without resorting to general (sleep) anesthesia.
At Southwest Vein and Leg, we offer anesthesia for some of our vein procedures, such as vein ablation.
What Is Anesthesia?
We offer three types of anesthesia for our vein procedures:
Local Anesthesia
This is injected “locally” to numb a small area. Tumescent anesthesia is a type local sedation where the solution is placed around the vein to empty the vein, provide local anesthetic, and to absorb heat.
Oral sedation:
An oral sedative can keep you relaxed if you’re anxious about a procedure. While it will not kill the pain, most patients are more worried about not knowing what all the procedures entails, rather then the amount of pain the procedure causes.
IV/Monitored Sedation
IV sedation the patient is continuously monitored and can be a deeper sedation. In IV sedation, the patient is in a twilight state and may be able to respond to instructions but will not remember the procedure, or feel any pain.