Do you know why people are often afraid of undergoing a surgery or operation? It is not the fear of getting cut and dissected but it is the fear of waking up while their skin is open and internal body parts are being operated with medical tools. The public based national anesthesia services must include informing people about anesthesia awareness.
Anesthesia awareness is a very rare condition in which the sedative stops working on the patient and their senses are reactivated. Most often the patient can only hear the surrounding sounds. In some cases the patient may also start talking. In only 1 out of 1000 anesthesia awareness cases, the patient can feel the pain of medical knives, scissors, and needles. The feeling of pain occurs only when the pain relieving medicine wears off.
Safety Points
There have been some cases in which a patient wakes up during an ongoing surgery and their senses of feeling and hearing becomes active, but they are unable to speak or express their pain. Such extreme cases are rare to none. Anesthesia is today’s world is far safer than it was in twentieth century. The modern day medical practices are evolved after mixing pharmacology and technology.
‘To Err is Human’ is a medical report entitled by the Institute of Medicine. According to this 1999 report, anesthesia is far safer than it was in 1980. Medical technology evolved greatly as the humans stepped into the new century. Imagine how safer today’s anesthesia would be!
For Patient
The patient must not be afraid of anesthesia. To be honest, modern surgeries have become possible only due to the miracles of anesthesia. For patients, communication with anesthesia provider is heaven on earth. The communication is done at two stages. Firstly, the patient must discuss their medical history, recent medical reports, current medical condition, medicines, allergies, and other relevant information with the anesthesia provider so that they can choose a better customized option for the patient.
The second communication stage is post-surgery communication. In this stage, the patient must discuss any rare event occurring with anesthesiologists including intense shivering, nightmares, bloody vomit, severe headache, unexplained fever, or any other related condition.
The Good News
Research on anesthesia awareness prevention is one of the core activities of national anesthesia services these days. The anesthesiologists are working in cooperation with researchers and doctors to deeply monitor and examine the conditions under which anesthesia awareness occurs. Anesthesia awareness has reduced a lot as compared to past century. The reduced percentage will be fully controlled soon the research is completed.
North American Partners in Anesthesia is providing specialized national anesthesia services with its highly customized national infrastructure. With proven effective policies, the highly professional technical staff and clinicians are able to reach remote areas. The organization is also offering cost effective solutions and investing in better equipment for 100% satisfaction of patients and doctors.
