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With a local anaesthetic just part of your body is numb and you remain awake. General anaesthetic your whole body is put to sleep. During surgery with a local anaesthetic sometimes the anaestheologist also gives you medication to make you sleepy so you don't remember the surgery.
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This link pretty much explains all about anaesthesia and the different types. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anesthesia In a nutshell, during a local anaesthetic, the patient is awake, but the area that is receiving treatment is numbed, so the patient feels no pain and minimal discomfort. This method is often used for fillings at the dentists, and for the insertion of pacemakers etc. A general anaesthetic means the patient is asleep during the procedure, and will not remember anything that happened during the procedure. For example, this method is used during operations such as appendecectomy's (removal of appendix) and transplants etc.
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A "local" effects only a certain part of the human body. A "general" effects the whole body. you are on life-support equipment and constantly under the care of an anesthesiologist Example: having a finger amputated, would require a "local" or deadening the arm and hand. having heart surgery, would require a "general", or deadening the whole body.
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