#2 If they found a chemical that could rapidly and safely do this, it would be a godsend to trauma care. This is because acute and intense pain can easily cause much additional damage, in all sorts of ways, and shock.
Ideally, they would want something that wears off after 15 minutes, and another that lasts for hours. The first would be because pain, or the lack of pain, is essential to many diagnoses. The latter would be very useful for extended surgery, where it is highly undesirable to use general anesthesia. |
