“the patient failed to come out of anaesthesia and never returned to recover consciousness”. “In some cases the operated person can remember what happens in the operating room how they work in your body”. “Woke up in the middle of the operation without that surgeons and assistants were given account…”.
Are some very common beliefs about the anesthesia, whose statistical odds of that happening are very remote, due to the advanced medical technologies and current monitoring systems, but continue to cause unfounded fears and anxiety among those who are preparing to be surgically operated with the help of the general anesthesia.
General anesthesia is closer to a pharmacological coma induced and reversible than a dream deep, according to a study by researchers at the General Hospital of Massachusetts, of the Faculty of medicine Weill Cornell in New York and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbour, both in the United States.UU.
After the anesthesia, “the brain is very, very quiet.” The activity of nerve cells decreases dramatically. “This also happens in coma”, explained Dr. Nicholas Schiff, Faculty of medicine Weill Cornell.
The expert authors of this study indicate that while often described the general anesthesia as “falling asleep”, there are important differences between these States and only some coincidences between the deepest States of sleep and the milder stages of anaesthesia.
For example, sleep often involve movements during several stages, while in general anesthesia patients often enter a phase or specific State and remain so during the surgery, which resembles more a comma.
Are many people who each year undergo a surgical intervention and that arise questions and doubts which fail to ask the anesthesiologist. Therefore the doctor Pere Vila, has picked up the uncertainties and fears more frequent sachet of anesthesia and clarifies them easily, through a series of basic recommendations.
According to this doctor, in the visit prior to the anesthesiologist, are standards that we must fulfil rigorously and must indicate if consumed alcohol, tobacco or drugs because they affect the organic response.
For Pere Vila also “is fundamental to go on fasting, given that if it does not meet the established fasting, the stomach contents could happen to the larynx, and lungs, causing respiratory complications”.
On fears that generates the anesthesia in some people are unfounded, because “mild complications, without side effects, are 20 percent, and the probability of a serious is one per 10,000 cases,” according to this expert.
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During the surgery, the anesthesiologist monitors the vital signs of patients, control its tension, heart rate, breathing and body temperature, is known at all times if the patient is poorly or very asleep and adjustments are made to avoid an early awakening”, explains Dr. Pere Vila, anesthesiologist. EFE/Orlando Barria
general anesthesia is closer to a pharmacological coma induced and reversible to a deep sleep
