Re: AMC - medical question

On Fri, 2 Jun 2006 10:37:14 -0400, Laney wrote
(in article <L2Yfg.45892$qd2.4697@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):


"Ms. Velveeta" <lvelasquezNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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So.. since we have some folks in the medical professions here..

When you're going to operate on a person in a coma, how do you put them
under? Do you just assume they don't feel anything and skip the anesthesia
part? Do you still do the part to keep them from moving? (I could easily
be wrong here, but my understanding is that there are two parts to the
process - one to put the patient to sleep and one to keep them paralysed.)

So Kendall, being comatose but quite the Chatty Kathy, can feel things like
Zach's hand, so why wasn't she mind-screaming in agony as they cut her up?

General anesthesia (the kind where they put you to sleep)
has three components: one is to induce "sleep," one is a
paralytic, and one is a painkiller. OTOH, you don't usually
get general for a c-section -- I'm pretty sure it's some kind
of a block, where a smaller area of your body is anesthetized,
as opposed to a local, where only the very immediate area
is numbed. <<

Yeah, but what they _really_ need to do is give you something for the pain
BEFORE the block! The most painful part of my shoulder surgeries was not the
surgeries, not the rehab, not the recuperation, heck, not even the initial
_accident_!...it was getting that damned shoulder block IN MY NECK. All I
got before it was a light sedative (the "happy juice"), but it was definitely
not enough!

Aisling
FAC Will Cortlandt
Jewelled Frango 2001

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