Imagine being awake at night, unable speak or move a single muscle while you have major surgery. It has happened before and it will happen again. Even though it is less common than 0.5%, this doesn't make it any easier for patients who are waiting in the holding area to plan their day.

1. Anaesthesia Awareness During Surgery: A Rare but
Potentially Horrifying Event

2. We provide reliable coverage and the right clinical skills surgery centers need to run smoothly and efficiently. Our customized anesthesia
solutions are flexible, scaling up or down to accommodate different volumes and case types.
We assume the responsibility of recruiting and credentialing board-certified and/or board-eligible anesthesia clinicians, eliminating the
unnecessary expense of hiring additional HR personnel.

3. Imagine being awake at night, unable speak or move a single muscle while you
have major surgery. It has happened before and it will happen again. Even
though it is less common than 0.5%, this doesn't make it any easier for patients
who are waiting in the holding area to plan their day.

4. A general anesthesia involves administering a cocktail of drugs to the
patient. This usually includes an induction agent like propofol or salt
pentathol, which puts the patient to sleep, an opiate like fentanyl/sufentanyl
which gives analgesia and reduces anxiety, as well as the synergistic effects
on both the induction and opiate. Finally, a neuromuscular blocking drug
such as succinycholine or vecuronium and rocuronium and other. A
vaporized liquid, such as desflurane and isoflurane is used to keep the
patient asleep. It can also be mixed with oxygen, room-air, or nitrous
oxide. Total Intravenous Anesthesia (also known as sufentanyl or propofol) is
a viable and effective technique that allows the patient to be kept asleep
with an IV drug infusion. The Balanced Anesthesia Technique is a technique
that maintains general anesthesia for up to 95% of patients. It consists of an
inhalation anesthetic mixed with intermittent doses of opiate.

5. Neuromuscular blocking agents do not alter consciousness but paralyze
patients completely. This drug is only used for the paralysis effect. It is used to
insert a breathing tube into the patient and regulate the patient's respiration.
(All of the above-mentioned anesthesia agents cause breathing difficulties or
stop at high doses).
Once you have a good understanding of anesthesia, you can quickly identify an
obvious situation in which a patient might be awake but unable or unable speak
or move. Every general anesthesia patient has a continuous, standard
monitoring system of the physiologic functions such as blood pressure and
heart rate.

6. Most patients will feel lightened by anesthesia. This is because they experience
an increase of blood pressure and heart beat before they become conscious.
Anesthesia can then be adjusted to correct this. It is also possible to measure
the amount of exhaled anesthetic that was used, which confirms proper
dosing. Bispectral index monitoring (BIS), which uses sticky pads on the
forehead to measure consciousness, is also widely available and not yet
standard. This monitor applies an innovative algorithmic analysis of patients
EEG. BIS can be used to detect patients who have not received adequate
anesthesia before they awaken. It is thought that this will prevent Anesthesia
Awareness.

7. Somnia, Inc.
450 Mamaroneck Ave Suite 201 Harrison, NY 10528
Website: https://somniaanesthesiaservices.com/
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