No single anaesthetic produces all of the components of general anaesthesia without depressing some vital organ function. So a multiple drug approach (balanced anaesthesia) is exploited to diminish sensory, motor, sympathetic and parasympathetic reflex activities, and to attenuate individual components of the anaesthetic state. The balanced anaesthesia technique has three components such as premedication, induction and maintenance of anaesthesia. Premedication agents are anxiolytics and pre-emptive analgesics. Premedication agents reduce the magnitude and development of pre-operative stress....
No single anaesthetic produces all of the components of general anaesthesia without depressing some vital organ function. So a multiple drug approach ...