I woke up during my surgery. Did you?

[leechiyong]

I'm sorry this happened to you. I had this happen during a different surgery. Anesthesia is an incredibly difficult balance and the reality is if they administer too much, you won't wake up. The smaller you are, the less margin of error there is. With the fact that everyone processes anesthesia differently, there is the possibility of this happening. It's completely frightening, but it does happen.

 

[K Couture]

the people who are making a fuss over waking up during surgery are just PLAIN IGNORANT. This can happen (albeit rarely) based on the patient's reaction to the anaesthesia. No it cannot be screened unlike the alergy to anesthesia. That condition is called Anesthesia awareness. Read up on it. It occurs in around 1 in 1000 patients. There is NO PROVEN METHOD TO TEST FOR THIS PHENOMENON. THEREFORE IT IS NOT THE ANESTHESIOLOGIST'S FAULT. I'm putting forth simple LOGIC here and not irrational assumptions. In fact it is because of the anesthesiologist that when such an event occurs it can be mitigated due to close monitoring. If she was kept awake during the remainder of the surgery then its the anesthesiologist's fault. In her case its not. Also majority of the time when that occurs the patient feels no pain. Only time i've known of the patient feeling pain is when very invasive non elective surgery is performed and the patient is unfortunate enough to experience this. Emphasis on NON ELECTIVE which includes but not restricted to procedures to save your life. Even then the anesthesiologist should be upping the dosage and knocking the patient back out.

 

[otsukare]

Hmm maybe a dumb question but I was wondering if all clinics have anesthesiologists in-house? I'm worried about general anesthesia for procedures and wanted to make sure places would have actual anesthesiologists just in CASE complications occur ....