Anesthesia and analgesia are two different things. There are also different types of anesthetics. For "procedural sedation" (the sort of thing you would do in t

Anesthesia and analgesia are two different things. There are also different types of anesthetics. For "procedural sedation" (the sort of thing you would do in the ER), it's common to simply use a dissociative agent (like Ketamine), so you aren't really "out", you just aren't "in" either.