(March 15, 2016 at 1:07 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Wrong. A conscious person is aware of things, an unconscious person isn't.
Do you know that for a fact? The way general anesthesia works is that it immobilizes the body but they are aware and just do not remember.
General anesthesia (GA) is the state produced when a patient receives medications for amnesia, analgesia, muscle paralysis, and sedation. An anesthetized patient can be thought of as being in a controlled, reversible state of unconsciousness. Anesthesia enables a patient to tolerate surgical procedures that would otherwise inflict unbearable pain, potentiate extreme physiologic exacerbations, and result in unpleasant memories.
The combination of anesthetic agents used for general anesthesia often leaves a patient with the following clinical constellation:
- Unarousable even secondary to painful stimuli
- Unable to remember what happened (amnesia)
- Unable to maintain adequate airway protection and/or spontaneous ventilation as a result of muscle paralysis
- Cardiovascular changes secondary to stimulant/depressant effects of anesthetic agents
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God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy