A YouTube video. It’s looks pretty bad, but am no expert. I have had surgery under general anaesthesia a few times and my recollection is of waking up, not struggling with the nurses.
Not my experience. Last time I was out they laid me on my stomach with tubes in my nose facing a bucket to puke in.
Didn’t look bad to me. Oh, and she wasn’t conscious, not in a way that counts. They’re going to wheel her out to the recovery room, and after awhile she’ll wake up (and perhaps puke). That’s the part that you’re remembering. That’s what she will remember. The thrashing that you see is akin to what you do in your sleep when your partner’s elbow nudges your back and you twist away from it but don’t wake up.
The video won’t play for me. One isn’t really woken up from anesthesia. They just stop giving you anesthesia and you will wake up on your own. It doesn’t require the administration of antidotes or reversal agents or anything of that sort.
I didn’t watch the video.
One of my daughters has had multiple surgeries, starting at three months of age. (Cleft lip and palate. A pretty severe one.) One time, when she was maybe seven or eight or so, she came out of anesthesia screaming her head off and thrashing about. We heard her down the hall in the waiting room. My wife went off to comfort her if possible. (They would only let one of us in.) It was a horrible experience for us, but not her. She doesn’t remember it. Broke our hearts, which is why I didn’t watch the video.
Apparently, it happens sometimes. It never happened again for her. We’ve been diligent in letting the anesthesiologist know about the episode and they’ve been good about avoiding it.
She remembers none of that BTW.
Yeah, it’s not a pretty process. If they have to open up your abdomen you’ll fart non-stop for the next hour or so after surgery in recovery. You’ll be conscious enough to answer questions and be embarrassed but you won’t remember a thing.
I just saw the video. This particular case looks worse because the surgery she had was facial surgery. She’s likely reacting that way due the pain / odd sensations in her mouth rather than the anesthesia itself.
This. The laryngoscope (big thing he’s holding her mouth open with) is usually only used to place the endotracheal tube, then set aside, all that irrigation and suctioning he’s doing wouldn’t be necessary for, say, an appendectomy, unless there was a complication in the mouth. The instinct to keep shit out of our airway goes way down to the bottom of our brains in a place that probably hasn’t changed since the KT event. It takes potent drugs to knock it out and it returns long before conscious, purposeful movement does.
Last year I had surgery to remove several painful gallstones (and also my bile duct to avoid the problem recurring.)
I was under anaesthesia for around 3 hours.
I woke up peacefully in a Recovery Ward.
A nurse gave me a drink of water and told me all was well.
After about 90 minutes, I was fine.
I’ve had no problems since.