Epidural Anesthesia During Breast Implants?

It is best to have your augmentation done with general anesthesia or a deep sedation. An epidural can work well for surgery on the belly and lower. It simply will not work high enough for you....without blocig the nerves that control your lungs! A board certified plastic surgeon and a board certified anesthesiologist will be able to provide the proper care and prevent you from waking up in the middle. Patients always worry about this, but I have never seen it happen!

Epidural anesthesia is not used for breast augmentation. Intravenous sedation and local anesthesia sometimes none but the vast majority of patients have a general anesthetic. This is extremely safe in reports of patients waking up during general anesthesia are extremely rare.

      Breast augmentation is most commonly performed with general anesthesia to assure that the patient is the most comfortable and not awake.  To be totally asleep, you need a tube to help you breathe.  Anything else has a greater potential for the patient being aware and awake.  Epidural anesthesia can be used for procedures lower on the body.  Kenneth Hughes, MD Los Angeles, CA