Does "cosmic" consciousness still work when you are under an anaesthetic?
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On 10/3/2014 3:38 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
wrote:
The jury may be out on this one, because of a somewhat scary
phenomenon called "anesthesia awareness."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anesthesia_awareness)
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//Non sequitur. /Is this anything like your dumb report on total sleep
deprivation? /
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This is quite a concern among surgeons because it's possible (and
happens in 0.2-0.4% of cases, more if the patient is traumatized) for
a person to receive the full and appropriate dose of an anesthetic
that is supposed to knock them out completely, yet still be awake
during an operation. Imagine being able to feel the surgeon cutting
into your heart, or being able to hear them talking about you. The
latter possibility has now almost comically worked its way into
surgical guidelines: "Because the medical staff may not know if a
person is unconscious or not, it has been suggested that the staff
maintain the professional conduct that would be appropriate for a
conscious patient."
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/Anesthesia by definition is a temporary unconscious state where there
is a no pain. "Anesthesia awareness" occurs during general anesthesia
when the patient has not been given enough of the general anesthetic to
render the patient unconscious./
