--- title: The hospital ward, operations and anaesthetic — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «The hospital ward, operations and anaesthetic», a lesson of the medicine course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A children's ward is built for children: there are nurses who check you day and night, play specialists, sometimes a hospit --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/28-the-hospital-ward-operations-and-anaesthetic/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/) / The hospital ward, operations and anae… # The hospital ward, operations and anaesthetic Lesson 28 of the medicine course of Mova's primary school: 15 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/medicine/28-the-hospital-ward-operations-and-anaesthetic/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/28-the-hospital-ward-operations-and-anaesthetic/0/) — A children's ward is built for children: there are nurses who check you day and night, play specialists, sometimes a hospital school, and a bed or chair for a parent to stay beside you. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/28-the-hospital-ward-operations-and-anaesthetic/1/) — Before an operation the anaesthetist, a doctor whose whole job is keeping you safe asleep, gives you a general anaesthetic through a mask or a thin tube in your hand. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/28-the-hospital-ward-operations-and-anaesthetic/3/) — The rules that seem odd have good reasons: no food beforehand so nothing can come up into the lungs, numbing cream so the needle hurts less, and a form signed so everyone agrees what will happen. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/28-the-hospital-ward-operations-and-anaesthetic/4/) — Children's wards have nurses, doctors and play specialists, and usually a bed or chair so a parent can stay overnight. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/28-the-hospital-ward-operations-and-anaesthetic/5/) — Nurses check temperature, pulse and breathing regularly, even at night, and being woken for checks doesn't mean something is wrong. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/28-the-hospital-ward-operations-and-anaesthetic/6/) — Before a general anaesthetic the stomach must be empty, called nil by mouth, so food can't come up and get into the lungs; if someone eats anyway, the operation may have to be put off. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/28-the-hospital-ward-operations-and-anaesthetic/7/) — An anaesthetist gives the anaesthetic by mask or through a cannula, a thin plastic tube in a vein, and watches the patient throughout the operation. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/28-the-hospital-ward-operations-and-anaesthetic/8/) — Numbing cream put on about an hour before makes the skin numb so a needle or cannula hurts less. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/28-the-hospital-ward-operations-and-anaesthetic/9/) — As the anaesthetic wears off, children may feel sleepy, sick or muddled, and recovery nurses give medicine for sickness or pain. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/28-the-hospital-ward-operations-and-anaesthetic/10/) — Keyhole surgery uses small cuts and a camera, so healing is usually quicker and scars smaller; appendix operations are often done this way. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/28-the-hospital-ward-operations-and-anaesthetic/11/) — Play specialists use dolls, pictures and games to show children what will happen and to distract them during procedures. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/28-the-hospital-ward-operations-and-anaesthetic/12/) — Hospital schools teach children who are in hospital for a long time so they don't fall behind. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/28-the-hospital-ward-operations-and-anaesthetic/13/) — A drip gives fluids or medicines straight into a vein, and its pump beeps when it needs attention, not usually because of danger. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/28-the-hospital-ward-operations-and-anaesthetic/14/) — Before an operation doctors explain it, its risks and benefits, and a parent signs a consent form; children are asked to agree too and may ask any question. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/28-the-hospital-ward-operations-and-anaesthetic/15/) — On the morning ward round doctors review each patient and plan the day's treatment, and lots of doctors at the bed is normal. - ← previous: [The optician and glasses](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/27-the-optician-and-glasses/) - next →: [Vaccinations and why](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/29-vaccinations-and-why/) - ↑ back to [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/)