Do they use anaesthetic if they operate on people in comas?
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Apparently they just 'sustain' your coma 
Nash said:Well, do they?Just reading about Ariel Sharon and him still being in a coma yet he needed some heart stuff done to him. Imagine waking up from a coma on the operating theatre? Has anyone ever been in a coma? What's it like?
People semi wake up under Anaesthetic sometimes and can feel all the pain and smell the burning of the flesh can see the lights and hear the talking a drilling but they cant move or scream
Sounds fun, the smell of human flesh in the morningZip said:People semi wake up under Anaesthetic sometimes and can feel all the pain and smell the burning of the flesh can see the lights and hear the talking a drilling but they cant move or scream
After all, as im sure your mother told you, you must always try new things....Anaesthetic is there to reduce or block sensations, in most cases, pain. They also use muscle paralysers/relaxants to stop movement.
I saw a documentary that claimed in the early days of anaesthetics, when operating on babies, they only used muscle paralysers as the babies couldn't talk to let them know they were inflicting pain. Only when some surgeon twigged and exerimented on himself that they found out pain and movement weren't stopped by the same drug.
People can regain semi-consciousness during operations if the anaesthetist is rubbish but I'm pretty sure this is really uncommon. Pretty sure they sustain the coma in the case described
I saw a documentary that claimed in the early days of anaesthetics, when operating on babies, they only used muscle paralysers as the babies couldn't talk to let them know they were inflicting pain. Only when some surgeon twigged and exerimented on himself that they found out pain and movement weren't stopped by the same drug.
People can regain semi-consciousness during operations if the anaesthetist is rubbish but I'm pretty sure this is really uncommon. Pretty sure they sustain the coma in the case described
Would be nice one day to simply be able to scan the brain, establish where the connection to that part of the body was, and "switch it off" for a limited period of time, rather than mess around with all this chemical nonsense.
People still die simply from the anaesthetics...
People still die simply from the anaesthetics...
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Hmm...I am going slightly off on a tangent now, but does anyone recall the episode of 'Tales from the Crypt' where the guy had been given something which made him appear dead and they started the PM on him and he was alive and could feel it all? Urgh!
Dr.EM said:I'm certain you have to agree to any surgery on you? You wouldn't be able to in a coma, I don't know how it would work on a legal front
If you are in a coma they ask your nearest of kin the decisions. IE.Wife, Mum, Dad, Children
Modern day Romeo and Juliet?The Mad Rapper said:Hmm...I am going slightly off on a tangent now, but does anyone recall the episode of 'Tales from the Crypt' where the guy had been given something which made him appear dead and they started the PM on him and he was alive and could feel it all? Urgh!
Quite possiblyZip said:Im pretty sure there is something like 7000 cases per week
but that is still probably less than .001% of total operations perfomed in a week.In the case in the OP I think they would just help induce the coma a little further untill after recovery and would most certainly have asked the next of kin for permission to operate, although every country is different.