Thursday August 21 / 2008

Thursday August 21 / 2008

12:10: The Health Roundup with Jay McQueen.

12:13: The face of pharmacy! We’ll have a chat about the Pharmacy Trends report in general, and also about how more pharmacists are offering special services, and why consumers should seek these pharmacists out. Some of these services are eligible for credits come income tax time too!
Guest; Karen Welds, Business Development Manager with the Pharmacy Group, Rogers Publishing.

12:20: Our favourite local chiropractors are back in the house.
Guests: Dr. Kathryn Wheatley and Dr. Jim Lamontagne, Regent Health and Chiropractic Centre over on Locke Street. (in-studio)

12:35: Expanding on the topic of diabetic foot care, we’ll move to a more wide ranging conversation about diabetes.
Guest: Dr. Perry Mayer, Mayer Institute for Advanced Diabetic Foot care.

12:45: Rexall Pharmacy segment.
Guest: Hilton
Anesthetics;

It is estimated that the average dentist administers between 1500 and 2000 injections of anesthesia each year. For the patient this is an extremely good thing, without the ability to produce numbness, modern dentistry would be all but impossible. Surprisingly the first local anesthetic was Cocaine which was isolated from coca leaves by Albert Niemann in Germany in the 1860’s. Also in 1884 Dr. William Stewart Halsted was the first to describe the injection of cocaine into a sensory nerve trunk to create anesthesia. It became fairly obvious fairly quickly that while the anesthetic characteristics of cocaine were desirable the euphoria and addiction it produced were not. In the turn of the century a lot of time and scientific progress and new discipline organic chemistry went into developing a better anesthetic. Local anesthetics are the most common drugs used today in the dental office, side effects are very rare.

Today the term general anesthesia in its most general form can include;
• Analgesia; blocking the conscious sensation of pain
• Hypnosis; produces unconsciousness without analgesia
• Amnesia; preventing memory formation
• Relaxation; preventing unwanted movement or muscle tone
• Obtundation of reflexes, preventing exaggerated autonomic reflexes.
Several forms of anesthesia, the following refer to states achieved by anesthetic working on the brain;
• General anesthesia; drug-induced loss of consciousness
• Deep sedation / analgesia; drug-induced depression of consciousness
• Moderate sedation / analgesia; drug-induced depression of consciousness ( patients can breath on their own and need no help maintain an airway)
• Minimal sedation/ anxiolysis; drug-induced state during which patients respond normally to verbal commands.

Tooth pain or when a baby begins teething, may cause pain, there are several things you can do to ease the pain. Your pharmacist will be able to tell you what is right for you.
Products:
• Orajel
• Baby Orajel
• Anbesol


Rexall Blog Reporter #0202
Nadine Janacek