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TERRIFIED of Waking Up During Surgery, As Well As Needles and Pain. Is This Common During Breast Implant Surgery?
Also How Bad is the pain and how long does it last?
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MCS6420
in Los Angeles, CA
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Waking up during breast implant surgery under general anesthesia is rare and should not be a concern
Waking up during breast implant surgery under general anesthesia is extremely rare and should not be a concern. If this remains a fear consider asking for a BIS monitor.
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Intraoperative awakening can happen rarely, but is usually preventable and you need to discuss with the anesthetist.
Your concerns about waking up during surgery are not totally without merit. Sometimes patients do wake up during surgery, and this was the subject of a movie "Awake" about 5 years ago. How does this happen? There is an interruption of the delivery of anesthetic while you are paralyzed, so you wake up but cannot signal to anyone that you are awake. That is obviously something to avoid! One way to avoid this problem is to use a total IV anesthetic that does...
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Waking up fduring breast surgery
No one I have ever treated has woken up during surgery. The anesthesiologists I work with monitor patients very carefully and keep them very well medicated to avoid this.
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