woman awake during surgery for 45 minutes
 

VIENNA (Reuters) - A woman lay awake during surgery for 45 minutes, unable to move or call for help, after staff forgot to hook up the machine pumping out anaesthetic, the Austrian daily Kurier reported Monday.



The woman was temporarily paralyzed because she had been given a muscle relaxant, and her ordeal ended only after a replacement doctor who came into the operating room saw tears in her eyes and noticed the machine was not connected properly.


The woman, who was undergoing abdominal surgery, is suing for 70,000 euro ($79,970) in damages, the hospital in the Austrian province of Carinthia confirmed.


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Fuck 70k euros. 100 million euro's.

I've heard of things like this before. Sometimes the anesthetics don't fully work either and the patient will be paralyzed during the whole operation but can still feel. Scary shit.

Yeah.. one of my biggest fears is being put under during surgery and waking up during the middle of it.. :(

Bah. I HATE those american "I'll sue you for millions of dollars" .. and win shit.
70k is reasonable, it's a shitload of money as well.

I agree and I'm American. :winkwink:

The surgery probably cost the insurance company $70k. Not really but depending on why she was in the hospital, it may cost over $70,000. I think her visit to the hospital should have no cost and she gets a small amount for mental trauma.

I'm alergic (sp?) to tipical anaesthetic's so they have to give me special shit :Graucho but I broke my arm when I was younger and they had to put screws in my elbow... well I woke up in the middle of surgey and was like "are you done yet" being I could tell I was still in the op room... they were like "?!@$##? umm almost" I was like "then put me back to sleep I don't wanna see this" lol I swear to god I remember saying that..

thing is after it was over and I woke back up.. they tried to deny I ever woke up in the middle of my surgey... I was like if I didn't, how would I know what it looked like inside the op room :321GFY

That's a lot of trauma.

thats ridiculous, she could get 700 million in the states for a screwup like that...

have you ever had abdominable surgery?

I have, had my gall bladder taken out one of the most painful things I've ever been through and they used the new process of laproscopic surgery which is less invasive.

I could never imagine going through that without being under.

i recall also a case where a young boy woke up during his knee surgery and went into cardiac arrest immediately.

What if this happened here. What if she went into shock and died, it's quite possible.

You can argue all day long that she didn't, but the simple fact is these people put her life on the line.

I don't think $70K is reasonable. We're talking about torture here. While it was not intentional she still suffered it, and all because some idiot didn't double check his work.

We're talking about a trauma that probably has shaken this woman to the core. She will never be able to trust a doctor again and will probably suffer from post traumatic stress disorder or some panic attacks the rest of her life, especially any time she has to put her trust into a doctor again.

it may not sound like a difficult process for you, but I suffer from anxiety disorder, the shit may be all in your head but your body acts exactly as if it were all real.

So before you make claims, walk a mile in someone's shoes.

I bet before it's all over with you'd be finding you a big ass american lawyer to get you millions.

ONLY 70,000 Euro? I would've got more!

jDoG

you couldn't pay me enough to experience her nightmares after that....

Exactly. that woman will probably never even be able to sleep peacefully the rest of her natural life.

dam so I should have sued too.. I could have been rich when I was 12 :feels-hot ohwell I kind of thought it was funny when I woke up..