Have you ever had a general anesthesia experience? After waking up after the operation, did you do any "confusing behavior"?
Let's first take a look at some netizens' "postoperative social death experience":
@ Lack of minerals at home: After the operation, I don't know how to be carried to the hospital bed, the doctor asked me if I could speak, my throat was very blocked, I said in a voice with phlegm stuck: "No blockage, no blockage", doctor: "Shut up." ”
@Milk Paste: My dad general anesthesia gastroscope, when confused, said: "Keep the money for the girl to buy clothes." ”
@ Xiaoming in Shandong: The main knife is my uncle, I woke up after coming to the ward to see me, I directly saluted a military salute and shouted: Your craftsmanship is really cattle!
@ don't want to die again: When I woke up, the first sentence was "choking the old woman", and then my mouth began to cry, and the doctor pushed me and said, "Oh so wronged, it's okay" In fact, I just want to go to the toilet.
1. What does the body go through during general anesthesia surgery?
Let's first look at what is the definition of general anesthesia?
General anesthesia, or general anesthesia, refers to the suppression of the nervous system of patients by drugs or other medical means, showing reversible loss of consciousness, loss of pain, muscle relaxation, and reflex suppression.
This means that the ideal general anesthesia needs to meet 4 elements: sedation, analgesia, muscle relaxation, and stress control.
When general anesthesia is given, the communication between brain regions is blocked, and the patient's consciousness and memory are lost, which looks like a "sleeping" state from the outside. And this kind of sleep, even if the pain is stimulated, will not wake up until the end of the operation, the doctor stops the anesthetic drug.
The neural pathway is restored, the brain is restarted, and the patient's consciousness and perception are gradually restored.
Throughout the process, the anesthesiologist is the equivalent of a "hypnotist." Sedatives are injected to keep you asleep, then analgesics are injected to alleviate the surgical response, and finally muscle relaxants are injected to make your muscles relax and unable to move.
Second, general anesthesia surgery is equivalent to passing through a "ghost door"?
Do you know? In fact, when generally anesthesia is performed, people do not breathe... No breathing, no surgery, isn't the person gone?
Indeed, human breathing is done by contracting and expanding the lungs, a process that requires muscle groups to drive. When anesthesia needles are injected into the body, the entire body is in a "dormant" state, and the muscles of the whole body are forced to "shut down", in this case, it is indeed impossible to guarantee normal breathing.
At this time, the anesthesiologist is very important. After the injection of anesthesia needles, the doctor will put on a mask for the patient to insert the trachea, etc., establish a man-made "oxygen channel", and then connect the anesthesia machine, and then adjust the breathing parameters on the ventilator according to the different physical conditions of the patient to ensure that oxygen is supplied to the patient in time.
Does general anesthesia make people stupid?
Many friends who have undergone general anesthesia surgery share their experience of waking up, which makes people laugh out of their abs. All kinds of confusing operations make people have to wonder whether the effect is too strong, and people have become stupid.
In fact, anesthetic drugs suppress the nervous system temporarily, and after the drug takes effect, the person's memory is interrupted. However, when the inhibition is over, the patient's consciousness and various reflexes will be restored, and the anesthetic drugs will be excreted with metabolism.
The so-called "stupid" is medically called "postoperative cognitive dysfunction".
A study of postoperative cognitive dysfunction published in The Lancet found that age, surgery-induced stress responses, duration of general anesthesia, etc., increased the risk of cognitive dysfunction, mostly in the elderly.
For young adults with well-developed brains, anesthetic drugs have no effect. In addition, many parents are worried about whether their children will have an impact on intelligence after general anesthesia surgery.
In this regard, Professor Wang Yi of the Department of Anesthesia Surgery of Xiangya Hospital of Central South University explained that if a child under 3 years old has "short-term surgery" and "single-time, short-term general anesthesia", it will not affect brain development. If a child is older than 3 years old, surgery and anesthesia will not affect brain development either.
4. What should I do if the wound hurts after anesthesia wakes up?
When anesthesia, people are unconscious, how the "knife" cuts on the skin and flesh, people do not feel pain. But when the anesthetic fails, the pain irritates the wound and makes it difficult to sleep.
Nurse Tan Ting of the Department of Anesthesiology of the Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University said that for patient pain, the best way at present is to use an analgesic pump. It can relieve pain and discomfort in a timely, effective and rapid manner, accelerate immune recovery, and reduce the occurrence of complications.
Therefore, when the patient has unbearable pain, do not be afraid of deterioration and choose not to make a sound. If postoperative pain is not treated in a timely manner, it is likely to lead to a series of complications such as infection and blood clots.
With the development of anesthesia surgery, the current general anesthesia drugs and technologies have developed quite maturely. You should look at anesthesia rationally, don't delay the condition again and again because of fear of anesthesia, miss the opportunity of surgery, and it is more difficult to control the disease.
References;
[1] "Is Whole Anesthesia a "Ghost Gate"? What does the body go through during anesthesia? 》. Tencent Medical Code.2021-12-05
[2] Under general anesthesia, people are not breathing?? Will it choke to death? 》. Shenzhen Health Commission.2021-10-09
[3] Nurse of Anesthesiology, Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University. Service Number of the Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University .2020-12-05
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