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The principal aim of anaesthesiology is to abolish pain and this can be achieved either by inducing unconsciousness with general anaesthesia (causing analgesia, hypnosis and muscle relaxation) or by local anaesthesia, preventing painful impulses from reaching the cortex of the brain by blocking the sensory nerve impulses from a localised area, causing analgesia and muscle relaxation.
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Kamm, G., Graf-Baumann, T. (1982). Local Anaesthesia. In: Machame Anaesthesia Notebook for Medical Auxiliaries. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67101-2_13
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