Dr. Wang is a well-known surgeon among surgeons. Sometimes, because of a sentence on the operating table, the face is red.
He is such a sincere person, even his own surgery is not spared.
Not long ago, he unfortunately suffered from appendicitis.
Years of surgical experience told him that this knife could not escape.
With all kinds of unwillingness, he changed his role from a doctor to a patient.
For anesthesiology, he is the same as many surgeons: in their bones, they feel that anesthesia is nothing. Even, they sometimes want to try to anesthetize the patient. Of course, the anesthesiology department cannot give him this opportunity.
With all kinds of dissatisfaction and a trace of disdain, he was pushed onto the operating table.
As soon as he lay down, he swore and said: I can know when you numb me! If you don’t believe me, let’s make a bet on the small hot pot opposite the hospital.
Doctor Zhang, who was in charge of anesthesia, showed a faint smile in his mask: Impossible, you must not know. Or, you can’t remember at all. This time, you lose.
Usually, he was not nervous when he operated on patients. But today, he was inexplicably nervous. At this time, he subconsciously worried more about when he would be numb.
Therefore, he stared nervously at Dr. Zhang’s every move.
The bet is a bet, but Dr. Zhang will not change the established anesthesia process: mask oxygen, sedation, drug administration…
A few minutes later, the disgruntled surgeon “falls asleep”.
After skilled intubation, Dr. Zhang has completely forgotten the bet.
Because of the short operation time, he woke up quickly and had good results.
I woke up and asked: Did you give me medicine in the mask?
Obviously, even the comrades who fight every day don’t know much about the business of anesthesiology: the era of anesthesia in the mask is gone, it was decades ago .
At this time, he was no longer the arrogant surgeon, he was just a patient who had just undergone surgery. After a meal of comfort and admission of losing a hot pot meal, he finally sent him away.
Speaking of which, how does the patient know that he has been anesthetized?
It can be said that anesthesiologists have “one hundred ways”.
The so-called “numbness in the past” is understood from the public’s perspective as “slept over” and “lost consciousness”. In fact, this range can be very broad. In a broad sense, as long as the anesthesia takes effect, it should be regarded as “the anesthesia has passed”, whether it is local anesthesia or general anesthesia.
A few brief introductions:
In local anesthesia, injecting local anesthesia into the surgical area is considered “the anesthesia has passed”.
Spinal anesthesia, also known as “half anesthesia”. When the anesthesiologist injects the local anesthetic into the spinal canal to take effect, it is considered “the anesthesia has passed”.
In general anesthesia, when the anesthesiologist has given various drugs and completed tracheal intubation, it is considered “the anesthesia has passed”. Of course, there are many short surgeries that do not require intubation. At this time, the “numbness of the past” may be even earlier.
If subdivided, it can take many forms: for example, after a sedative is given, the patient will be anesthetized after falling asleep; some anesthesia does not necessarily have to achieve the effect of falling asleep. During that process, the patient will be very quiet, and even the spiritual world is no longer in the operating room.
With the addition of various drug combinations, anesthesiologists have many ways to get patients to sleep. It is no exaggeration to say that anesthesiologists are comparable to “Yellow Pharmacists”. However, the drugs used by anesthesiologists are all for the purpose of curing diseases and saving people.
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