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polish_aristocrat 09-11-2008 06:02 AM
OT: Awarness during anesthesia during surgery
 
Did it happen to you or anyone you know?

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Awareness occurs in 20,000-40,000 patients out of every 20 million US annual surgeries every year[1] when patients have anesthesia that is inadequate to keep them unconscious during an operation. In this situation, the patient may feel the pain or pressure of surgery, hear conversations, or feel as if they cannot breathe. The patient may be unable to communicate any distress because they have been given a paralytic/muscle relaxant. If anesthesia awareness does occur about 42% feel the pain of the operation, 94% experience panic/anxiety and 70% experience lasting psychological symptoms.[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anesthesia_awareness

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Anesthesia Awareness is probably the most helpless and terrifying feeling in the world. It occurs when one is supposed to be completely asleep under full general anesthesia, but the brain is not asleep at all. Your body is almost always fully paralyzed; you have a tube down your throat; and you can't speak, breathe, or move or do anything to alert the doctors that you are awake. If you do manage to move, as I did, a disastrously common response from the anesthesia provider is to simply administer one or more doses of paralytic drug; not considering the possibility that the patient is awake; i.e. experiencing Anesthesia Awareness. A paralytic drug administered while the patient is conscious feels like ignited jet fuel coursing through your veins
http://www.anesthesiaawareness.com/what-is-AA.html

I've had surgery in general anesthesia twice already, without any problems, but I was a child so I wasn't aware of any such risk... Sounds scary though :helpme

MrAwesome 09-11-2008 06:03 AM
the movie surrounding this topic was intense

polish_aristocrat 09-11-2008 08:06 AM
haven't seen it yet...

CaptainHowdy 09-11-2008 08:23 AM
Scary stuff, is that Jessica Alba movie?

mrwilson 09-11-2008 08:26 AM
That has never happened to me, i would hate it.

The movie is called "Awake" i think and if it is the one i am thinking of it does have Jessica Alba :thumbsup

PenetratinP 09-11-2008 08:34 AM
When I had my wisdom teeth taken out, I remember hearing the dentist & his assistant talking the whole time.

But I didn't feel any pain, so I didn't think much of it at the time.

Now it's scary to think that I could have been feeling intense pain with no way to tell the doctor.

Marcus Aurelius 09-11-2008 09:05 AM
When I had my gall bladder removed I woke up in the operating room and was conscious and aware of the doctors gathering around me, everyone already had surgical gear on and I remember hearing someone say "he's awake", someone looked down at me, I heard a hissing noise, and the next time I woke up I was in recovery feeling like I had been filleted like a fish.

O MARINA 09-11-2008 09:42 AM
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Originally Posted by polish_aristocrat (Post 14738764)
haven't seen it yet...

make sure you watch it
http://wildaboutmovies.com/images_5/...oviePoster.jpg
http://www.lmo.co.uk/resources/images/f_awake_08.jpg


:offtopic:hitit

http://images.teamsugar.com/files/us...Nov-14-NYC.jpg

http://upload.moldova.org/movie/movi...n2_awake_4.jpg

rowan 09-11-2008 11:31 AM
Last general I had they gave me some oral liquid which made me drowsy about 30 seconds later, next thing I know I'm asking a guy typing into a computer near me if it's over yet.

I can't begin to imagine the pain that would be felt if the anaesthetic is non functional... the pain afterwards is bad enough.

jakethedog 09-11-2008 11:32 AM
had the movie figured out by 20 min .. disappointing

polish_aristocrat 09-12-2008 02:29 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by MDCQ (Post 14738999)
When I had my gall bladder removed I woke up in the operating room and was conscious and aware of the doctors gathering around me, everyone already had surgical gear on and I remember hearing someone say "he's awake"...
bah, I hope it won't happen to me


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