Thursday, January 20, 2011

Anesthesia - awake on the operating table

 Gently fall asleep and waking up is the operation survived: It is fortunately in most cases. But there are exceptions: In one or two of 1000 to early intervention, the patient is awake. The mere thought of it, during an operation to suddenly come to consciousness, is ludicrous to most people. The fatal: Getting it would probably be reluctant not a single hair, because all body reactions are dimmed by the anesthesia.


to lie on the operating table and tell his alertness can not - a phenomenon called "Awareness" has been known for some time. A survey by researchers from Berlin and Bochum is now: Absolute certainty before it, but a set of measures that can protect against unwanted awakening. For in one or two of 1000 anesthesia does this happen - that's nationwide 8000-16000 cases per year.

Particularly at risk are the work of Petra Bischoff (University Hospital in Bochum) and her Berlin colleague: Ingrid Rundshagen (Charité), according to certain risk groups: people who often take pain killers and narcotics, or who already have cardiovascular disease. To protect the cardiovascular system, the anesthetic will sometimes choose to easily conclude that specialist doctors.

Children are even far more frequently affected: your risk of unwanted wax phase between eight and ten times higher, because her little body processes the narcotics relatively quickly. But even with emergency caesarean section, emergency surgeries, or during night operations, the risk is increased awareness.

Fear of death after example of a British patient who intubated the caesarean birth of her child, but experienced with full consciousness, is one of the more violent kind often are operating sounds, words, sentence fragments, the patient consciously or unconsciously perceive.

"Pain is not the main risk factor for late effects of a traumatic experience awareness". Much more difficult is it to process the experience to be delivered, not knowing what happened, and possibly scared to death" have for him is so much a general and detailed information to patients before surgery at the center - which can arouse in some cases, additional fears "- but rather the close monitoring during the procedure.

No comments:

Post a Comment