Posted on 07/29/2010 1:40:34 AM PDT by Chet 99
(CNN) -- When Carol Weiher was having her right eye surgically removed in 1998, she woke up hearing disco music. The next thing she heard was "Cut deeper, pull harder."
She desperately wanted to scream or even move a finger to signal to doctors that she was awake, but the muscle relaxant she'd received prevented her from controlling her movements.
"I was doing a combination of praying and pleading and cursing and screaming, and trying anything I could do but I knew that there was nothing that was working," said Weiher, of Reston, Virginia. Weiher is one of few people who have experienced anesthesia awareness. Although normally a patient does not remember anything about surgery that involves general anesthesia, about one or two people in every 1,000 may wake up during general anesthesia, according to the Mayo Clinic. Most of these cases involve the person being aware of the surrounding environment, but some experience severe pain and go on to have psychological problems.
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A preview of Bummercare standards. If the anesthesiologist were watching the patient’s brain waves and blood pressure this would not have gone unnoticed. With Bummercare we’ll be fortunate if the anesthesiologist speaks fluent English.
Funny you should mention that they might not speak English because it might end up being that good to great health care will actually end up being in countries where English is not the first language such as in India.
Obamanationcare is a nightmare, but this is an older known and virtually undetectable nightmare. BP spikes even under full general anesthetic when a surgeon cuts into a patient. EKGs also spike.
This is a true horror, but we shouldn’t try to pin it on obamanationcare. It’s an unfortunate failing of the state of technology.
Hearing Hindi or Sanskrit wouldn’t bug me so much as hearing Spanish, French, or Arabic. Now, if I heard Hebrew I would know this doctor is probably a genius.
“in countries where English is not the first language such as in India”
Huh? English is one of the two official languages of India. The other is Hindi. Virtually all educated people from India speak both.
It would seem logical that the corner cutting inherent to Bummercare would only make it worse, even if it can’t always be caught. Research needs to be done to find out how the mind of a patient attempting to signal through the inhibition of a curare type drug can be detected. For example could the patient do something rhythmic which would show up as an otherwise unlikely rhythmic pulse in the brain waves?
When I had my last surgery, I saw the doctor’s scapel coming up at me and I said something like, “Excuse me, I’m still awake.”
she woke up hearing disco music. The next thing she heard was “Cut deeper, pull harder.”
That’s so much like my dreams it’s creepy.
I had a friend wake up during surgery.
However, the only thing they were really aware of was the doctors conversation - they didn’t feel anything.
This is a true story. What the doctors spent the entire operation talking about was how much they hated Obama, what a jerk he was and how he was going to ruin American medicine.
My friend is somewhat apolitical, but I know this because after it happened I was one of the first people they made a call to. They knew I would want to hear this - it happened when people were fighting the Obama takeover of healthcare.
I had my leg amputated without general anesthesia. Got the medicine that makes you woozy, and a nerve block, but no general due to my weak heart. I confusedly remember sawing noises and being jerked around and great discomfort. I do NOT recommend this.
I agree with you.
The need to know how the surgery is going and what they are doing in major surgery is zero, in my opinion.
I did have an outpatient dental surgery several years later and I was terrified.
I was awake for the whole thing — deliberately — I was given options.
It turned out fine.
I hope you are doing fine now Lucius.
The conversation was good between doctor and nurse and the music being played was classical music.
Wasn’t feeling up to music appreciation at the time.
You poor dear, nodding in sympathy.
I hope you’re doing a lot better now.
I woke up in the middle of my right knee replacement as the Doc was banging the parts on with a mallet. I said to him “I want to watch!” He said I couldn’t. Put me back into
lala land. (I had a spinal so I couldn’t feel anything.)
I met with one oral surgeon who went off in a snit when I said there was no way in hades I was going to take a general for pulling a tooth. The not unsympathetic dental office “adjusted” the fee for me (their normal doctor had injured his hand and was in recuperation, and I saw a substitute). I went to another dentist and he did it with nothing but Novocaine, no muss, no fuss.
With Bummercare you'll be lucky to have an anesthesiologist..... Like the Civil War, a shot of whiskey then off with your leg.
I’d have told them “Get me a mirror, then.”
>> he did it with nothing but Novocaine
wimp ...
Yes, usually I have novocaine, but the dental surgery was about an hour.
I was able to use some new type of combination of pills (to me) and it worked well.
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