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How Long Does It Usually Take to Wake Up from General Anesthesia if Going for a Mommy Makeover for 4 Hours?

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Waking From Anesthesia

Most patients will wake up within a few minutes of the completion of a Mommy Makeover. Generally as the final dressings are being placed, the anesthesiologist will lighten the anesthesia allowing the patient to gently begin to respond to verbal commands. Even though patients are awake and responding in the operating room, they may not remember this time as the medications given during the surgery will make them forgetful. Once patients are in the recovery room and less sleepy, they will be... more

Anesthesia wake-up time after mommy makeover depends on type of anesthesia.

You will often see by the other answers here that if a surgeon operates in a setting that utilizes a certain type of anesthesia more commonly than others, this will be the "recommended" type of anesthesia. Prior to 1991, our office surgical facility utilized only local aneshtesia or IV sedation, and my partners and I touted our anesthetic regimen as "safer and superior" to "going completely asleep" with a general anesthetic. Since 1991, when we started... more

Time to wake up from anesthesia after a mommy makeover

Patients usually wake up from breast and abdominal surgery within a few minutes of the end of the case. Modern outpatient anesthetics are very different from older techniques. Quick emergence is the rule. Pain pumps postoperatively reduce the amount of narcotics that tend to make patients sleepy and feel drugged. Patients can help with their recovery by not drinking the night before surgery, by hydrating up until the time they need to be NPO, and by informing themselves... more

Current Anesthesia Techniques Allow Patients to Wake Up Almost Immediately Following the Completion of Surgery

The science of anesthesia has made dramatic advances in the past twenty years. In the past, inhalation anesthesia resulted in slower recoveries with more nausea. Current anesthesia techniques allow patients to wake up almost immediately following the completion of surgery. It’s also important to note that newer anesthetic agents are associated with less nausea following surgery. In addition most patients are ready to leave the surgical facility within one to two hours following the... more

Anesthesia

Most patients will wake up a few minutes after the completion of the procedure for the mommy makeover. They are usually inrecovery room with nursing care for a short period of time. We use modern anesthesia techniques which eliminates the long recovery times. Our medications and the other drugs also reduce if not eliminate the post operative nausea and vomiting. You are very well taken care of here.

Waking up from anesthesia

You should be awake within a few minutes of having a mommy makeover under general anesthesia. Of course, you want to have your surgery by a board certified plastic surgeon in a hospital or in a fully certified surgery center. And your anesthesia should be administered by an anesthesiologist or anesthetist. These are important issues to discuss with your surgeon before surgery. I hope that helps and wish you all the best!

Anesthesia Recovery after Mommy Makeover

I have the great pleasure of working with a wonderful group of anesthesiologists experienced in the treatment of cosmetic surgery patients. They are very adept at timing the patient wakeup with the end of the procedure. It is not uncommon for me to place the abdominal binder and have the patient breathing on their own within a few moments. Therefore, you are awake within minutes of your procedure ending and usually alert and oriented 1-3 hours after the... more

Mommy makeover

Wake up time for a 4 hour operation shouldn't be very long. Anesthesiologists currently use medications that should make the wake up pleasant as if you had a 1 hour operation.

Waking up from anesthesia is pretty quick after surgery

Thank you for your question. Waking up from anesthesia is the easy part and only takes several minutes. It's the "clearing your head" from the grogginess and tiredness that may take several hours after. However, many cosmetic surgery procedures that last around 4 hours are done on an oupatient basis where most of the recovery is done at home in the comfort of your own bed. Good luck!

Recovery from mommy makeover anesthesia usually fairly quick

With newer medications, most patients wake up quickly and easily after general anesthesia, which is usually a good choice for the mommy makeover. Other things that can help are local (numbing) anesthesia injected into the surgical areas before you are awakened, and perhaps the use of a pain pum such as the On-Q which automatically infuses numbing medication into the surgical site through a tiny tube.

General Anesthesia Safety

General anesthesia is very safe as long as it is performed by a anesthesia specialist and in an accredited surgical facility. If you are otherwise healthy, you should come out of general anesthesia fairly quickly. You will "blow off" the anesthesia effects in a recovery room where you will be monitored closely. Best of luck.

Waking up from general anesthesia.

General anesthesia performed in modern surgical facilities and using the latest anesthesia drugs is very safe and very well controlled. The drugs used today are extremly short acting and you will be awake within minutes after they are stopped. The amount of time you spend in a recovery room will vary depending on the type of anesthesia used and your body's abilty to metabolize the drugs, however, this is a different discussion.

Typically 10-60 minutes to wake up from General Anesthesia after a Mommy Makeover

There are a lot of variables related to waking up after general anesthesia. Some of the common ones include your age, overall health, what procedures were done, and what medications were used. With experienced anesthesia personnel and a healthy patient, waking up is pretty fast after general anesthesia. There is a difference between breathing on your own and answering questions versus remembering everything! Your mental status regarding being awake and... more

Time in recovery room after general anesthesia

In most instances, patients are leaving for home by 60-90 minutes after arriving in the recovery room from a 4 hour general anesthetic. see video

Otto Joseph Placik, MD

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Chicago Plastic Surgeon

Waking up after anesthesia

Everyone wakes up differently from anesthesia. But interestingly, with the newer medications we have today, patients wake up quicker and easier than ever before.

Steven Wallach, MD

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Manhattan Plastic Surgeon

It takes about an hour to wake up afte a 4 hour mommy makeover operation.

Patients are sensitive to anesthetic agents at different levels and the anesthesiologists manage their patients differently. However, after a major operation, most patients are awake and talking within an hour. They might not remember the conversation, however.

The effects of anesthesia

This is a good question, you should make sure your anesthesiologist is board certified. There have been great improvements in anesthesia that allow much less heavy sedation to keep patients comfortable. Our patients wake up almost immediately after surgery and without nausea. The tummy tuck procedure is one of the most uncomfortable for recovery, and therefore we use a pain pump for our patients which lasts about three days, getting them over the worst of it.

Advantages of IV Sedation over General Anesthesia for Cosmetic Surgery

Long multiple procedure cases, such as mommy makeovers, can be performed under IV anesthesia. I perform multiple procedure cases lasting 8-9 hours every week. The truth is that for procedures lasting longer than 4 hours, the patient is better off with IV anesthesia. With general anesthesia, the risk of pulmonary embolism increases with the length of the surgery. For a 4 hour procedure under general anesthesia, you would likely be in the recovery room at minimum 2 hours and probably more.... more

Recovery from anesthesia

Recovery times from general anesthesia vary from person to person based on body size, anesthetic used, and tolerance to certain medications. You are technically "awake" right after surgery in the operating room when the breathing tube is removed. However, you will be drowsy and won't remember very much for 1-2 hours afterwards.

David Bogue, MD

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Boca Raton Plastic Surgeon

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Waking up from general anesthesia after a mommy makeover

You will wake up right after the surgery while still in the operating room. However, you will likely not recall this due to the effects of the anesthesia. You will slowly begin to remember events and fully wake up while in the recovery room where you will be for about one hour after your surgery. Your pain will be well controlled during this recovery phase and you will also receive anti-nausea medication during this time. Everyone responds slightly differently to general anesthesia, so... more

Recovery post tummy tuck surgery

Time in the recovery area could range from 1-2 hours max, depending on the severity and complexity of the case. Patients will wake from surgery soon after anesthesia is discontinued. However, you are heavily sedated and may be in and out of consciousness. Make sure your plastic surgeon is board certified as well as the anesthesiologist they work with in surgery. Good luck and take care.

Awaking from anesthesia

Usually the anesthesiologist will "wake" you up before you are off the operating room table. However, you may still not remember anything or be coherent for a while after this. Even immediately after surgery, a surgeon can be talking to you and explaining things about the surgery, but patients will often not remember this conversation. Most patients will be quite cognizant within the hour following reversal of the anesthesia.

Robin T.W. Yuan, MD

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Beverly Hills Plastic Surgeon

Anesthesia

With the new medications used in general anesthesia, you will wake up woith in minutes from stopping the mediications. You may not remember it but physiologicaly you are awake. It depend on the medications used.