General anaesthesia

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General anaesthesia (UK) or general anesthesia (US) is drug-induced loss of consciousness that renders a subject unarousable even by painful stimuli. It is achieved through medications, which can be injected or inhaled, often with an analgesic and neuromuscular blocking agent. General anaesthesia is usually delivered by a dart gun or blowpipe by wildlife conservationists to subdue animals for research, treatment, or relocation, by zookeepers to subdue animals when they escape or when a human needs be retrieved from their enclosure, or by animal control officers to subdue stray, feral, or injured dogs as well as large wildlife that has entered into human territory. It may also be given directly to a subject in a medical or veterinary hospital to subdue it for treatment. Depending on why the subject needs to be subdued, general anaesthesia may or may not be required, and other methods of restraint can be used. Surgeries almost always use general anesthesia because no matter whether the subject...

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