The Different Uses Of Hypnosis in Anesthesia and Intensive Care Unit

Hypnosis is an interactive method of evoking sensations, perceptions, comprehension, and voluntary motor activity in an individual by the hypnotist; and facilitates diversion of attention from disturbing stimuli and feeling better by patients.Sensorial-cognitive processes and the physiological changes regarded to be involuntary. It has been observed in many electrophysiological studies on pain that hypnosis alters the pain neuromatrix activity, encompassing the prefrontal cortex, the insula, somatosensory cortex, thalamus, and the cingulate cortex, and that it raises the threshold of awareness in general anaesthesia. Pain, anxiety, and hemorrhage are decreased under hypnosis. When used as an adjuvant, it reduced postoperative pain relief, analgesic requirements, and side effects as well.Postoperative pain, anxiety, stress, nausea, and the duration of hospital stay have been investigated in surgical interventions. The studies on hypnosis used on surgery patients relied on suggestions against pain, anxiety and stress. Studies on the effect of hypnosis on intraoperative bleeding are limited. Particularly important is the effect of surgical types on the quality of the bleeding. Hypnosis can be usefully sedative, anxiolytic, nausea and vomiting. In addition, hypnosis can be used to protect body heat on postoperative shivering. It is used for pain and sedation mechanical ventilator-CPAP compliance, weaning, anxiolytic in COPD patients, intensive care depression, rehabilitation can be used to increase muscle strengthin intensive care patients.