A friend of mine was given Ketamine for her hip replacement surgery and although she was paralyzed and unable to move or communicate with her surgeons, she remained fully, brutally awake and aware during the entire surgery.
She said the pain was unbelievable.
I don’t allow Ketamine to be used on my dogs.
This sounds like a total anesthetic fail, for which anesthesiologists typically get sued big time. The patient can easily demonstrate awareness memory by describing details of the surgery which match up with the video the surgeon generally makes. The vitals would probably show blood pressure shooting through the roof, and the anesthesiologist probably ignored it. The paralysis was almost doubtless not from ketamine; it was from paralyzing curare alkaloids, e.g. pancuronium, given along with it (a surgeon doesn’t want muscles moving around that he’s cutting and restitching).
Sounds like being awake during a nightmare! Oi!