Guest guest Posted August 29, 1999 Report Share Posted August 29, 1999 Hi, As one who is terrified of general anesthesia, I found this interesting. I wonder if a traditional surgeon would take this seriously though! I may have to have surgery and am worried because I have Copd - meaning I don't breath so well! Has anyone here had general anesthesia and if so, how did you do? Take Care, Christie Subject: ANESTHESIA PROTOCOL Attention Anesthesiologists and Physicians Information Regarding Anesthesia " I would recommend that potentially hepatoxic anesthetic gases not be used including Halothane. Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome are known to have reactivated herpes group viruses which can produce mild and usually subclinical hepatitis. Hepatotoxic anesthetic gases may then provoke fulminate hepatitis. Finally, patients with this syndrome are known to have intracellular magnesium and potassium depletion by electron beam x-ray spectroscopy techniques. For this reason I would recommend the patient be given Micro-K using 10mEq tablets, 1 table BID and magnesium sulfate 50% solution, 2cc IM 24 hours to surgery. The intracellular magnesium and potassium depletion can result in untoward cardiac arrhythmias during anesthesia. For local anesthesias, I would recommend using Lidocaine sparingly and without epinephrine. " - R. Cheney, MD, PhD, 1992 " Suggestions on anesthesia include using Diprivan (propofol) as the induction agent along with nitrous oxide and isoflurane (Forane) as the maintenance agent. The ones to avoid are histamine releasers that include sodium pentothol as well as a broad group of muscle relaxants in the Curare family, including Tracrium and Mevacurium. " - . L. Class, MD, 1996 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 29, 1999 Report Share Posted August 29, 1999 > As one who is terrified of general anesthesia, My mother had several surgeries where she had very bad experiences with the anesthetics. She required another operation but was terrified of the anesthetic so she chose to have none and used hypnosis instead. She was awake during the entire operation and didn't feel any pain. Her hypnotist was in the operation room with her and she had an anesthetist there for back up. This was about 25 years ago and she was the first person in Colorado to try this. I would thing this is more common now. The docs were amazed at how quickly she healed from the operation. Patti -- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 3, 2011 Report Share Posted August 3, 2011 hello fellow hip/knee folks... regarding the question about anesthetics im having my third hip surgery in two years next week and will have had general for all three...it works great...no pounding noises, no fear of waking up, and no bad memories....i highly recommend it. my first two were less than routine, so that even made a stronger case for general. no bad side effects, or lasting issues..... good luck making the decision~ celaine LTHR 09 LRevision 11 RTHR 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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