neuroleptanalgesian.
/ˌnjʊərə(ʊ)lɛptanlˈdʒiːzɪə/, U.S. /ˈˌn(j)ʊroʊˌlɛptˌænlˈdʒiziə/; see also analgesia n. Medicine.
A method of pain relief employing an antipsychotic (neuroleptic) drug and an opioid analgesic; the state of sedation and indifference to pain, with retention of the ability to respond to commands, produced by this.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > anaesthetization, pain-killing, etc. > [noun] > analgesia
analgesia1706
spinal analgesia1912
neuroleptanalgesia1961
PCA1982
1961 Acta Anaesthesiol. Scand. 5 73 (heading) Neurolept-analgesia—an alternative to general anaesthesia.
1961 Acta Anaesthesiol. Scand. 5 81 Neurolept-analgesia has been found to be a technique by means of which the patient is rendered pain-free and in a general condition suitable for operation, while at the same time sparing many central nervous structures and pathways which are blocked or put out of action in orthodox anaesthesia.
1966 Anaesthesia & Analgesia Current Res. 45 642/2 The term neuroleptanalgesia should be restricted to description of the condition of patients who, although analgesic, deeply sedated, and partly or wholly amnesic, will understand and answer simple questions and obey commands during surgery.
1998 Jrnl. Neurosurg. Anaesthesiol. 10 25 Remifentanil and propofol infusions were used to provide neuroleptanalgesia during an awake craniotomy to resect a left frontoparietal glioblastoma near the motor speech center.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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