It’s the craziest experience going from fully awake and a little scared to then being woken in a different room. It’s like blinking and teleporting somewhere else. I was convinced as a kid that they didn’t actually operate on me since it all felt so quick.
yeah it was like one minute I was really happy (they gave me a make-happy drug before the anesthesia) and singing a little song to myself and then I watched a wild light show and then the nurses were talking to me telling me that everything went ok and I didn't die.
I had wisdom teeth out at 14. I'm positive my father who picked me up was told that I might utter things that I normally wouldn't, in my groggy state. And good thing. I'd had a bad dream that I was feeling weak and my father was making me walk across a huge parking lot to take me home. At my bedside, after he spoke to me, it was "Jfc, DAD! If you make me walk across that g-d damded f'ing parking lot...I swear...!!" "No need. Don't worry..I'm parked right outside.." LOL (I NEVER spoke like that even with friends.. But obviously heard it from somewhere, ha!)
Right? I went under general anesthesia and it felt no like no time at all passed. Except it did and I woke up with a sore throat and then felt a bit later pain from my surgery 😅
Same. I just remember feeling a few horrible seconds of burning pain (someone injected the sedative too quickly) and then I had teleported to a dimly lit room and had a sheet covering me again.
Same with me. I said to them "Why didn't you start yet?" It was instant. As if I hadn't skipped any time and was questioning why they were telling me I was all done.
I had eye surgery a couple of years ago and full fucking credit to the anesthesiologist, he told me to count back from 10, I don't remember past 7, four hours later I'm in a lovely bed having a cup of tea and able to see for the first time in 3 months, absolute godsends all of them 💜
@@mandowarrior123 My sister got to 0 and asked what now? They had to up the amount a lot and was seeing things coming out the walls for days. Apparently it is pretty rare.
@@aaron8977 Who told you that you can't have phones in the OR ? There's no rule that days you can't have it given you're not operating on the patient and have it properly sanitized. Besides I remember some days ago I took some photos of a guy with well let's say..... Succeeded to make some finger smoothie 😅 Repair of that made me throw away the really good rose smoothie that I made
I had a surgery recently: the anesthesiologist was so calm, reassuring and caring that he managed to make me feel comfortable despite what was about to happen. He was also teaching a student on how to treat a patient: he made sure to keep me warm (the or is freezing), used very sweet talking and held his hand on my head while putting me under. And when I woke up he was still there, asking me questions and telling me that I did good, cheering me up. I was very very grateful, he did an amazing job!
Most anesthesiologists are wonderful! I have chronic health problems and medical PTSD and they always make me so calm. I’ve even had one give me anxiety meds cause he saw how anxious I was for a minor process that I have severe PTSD over. I’ve had bad experiences with many doctors and nurses, but all the anesthesiologists I’ve met are wonderful. I always feel so comfortable and calm when they come into the room
I recently had an IR procedure that they would not normally put you out for. I have CPTSD and Medical PTSD. The anesthesiologist, having read my chart, came to me and was so kind and understanding. Not only did he assure me that I would be sedated prior to the procedure, but he prepared the room and the staff. When they took me in, there was soft music playing and they treated me like fine china. I was so grateful for him.
Wow, that sounds so much like my recent experience that I had to comment. I also had an IR procedure they don't normally put you out for, and have CPTSD and medical PTSD. My doctor was incredibly compassionate, and did so much work to try and make sure the experience would be comfortable for me. Unfortunately, some of the things were out of her control (things related to how the hospital worked), but she did her best to find ways to make it work for me. Having that person on your team who understands your difficulties and will make a great effort on your behalf is such a comforting experience when you're in that sort of situation.
Medical PTSD sounds terrible! You're in there to have an operation done to save your life, but if the conditions are wrong, you might have life-threatening complications due to traumatic reflexes just from the stress of the situation that's there to save your life in the first place!
Last time I had a surgery done the anesthesiologist held my hand (he apparently does that to every patient who allows him) cause doesn’t want them to feel alone fading into the dark and unknown. It honestly warmed my heart so much that the last thing I thought was literally “I’m in good hands, it’s gonna be fine”.
Lol, when I went for surgery, it was early in the morning. As soon as I was hooked up I peace’d out without the anesthesia at all. Then woke up in recovery. It was pretty great
I had an anesthesiologist that was really sweet. He asked me if I wanted him to do anything while I went out, and I felt really embarrassed asking him to pet my forehead like my mom used to. He was excited to be able to help and actually said he enjoys finding the different things that comfort people, he loves his job and doesn't want anyone afraid when they slip into the anesthesia. By far the best experience I've ever had. He even texted my husband throughout the procedure to keep him updated!
Dude, dont worry about posting your old videos that the other account previously stole. Its your content, you get to post it. And personally, there are a lot of your videos that they stole that I miss. Would love for you to post them again so I can watch them!
Could you also repost the first days medical students series separately? It's fine to have them put together in a video, but I would like to share only a few of them. 😅
Thank you Dr. Glaucomflecken for bringing us a good chuckle! Speaking as an Anesthesiologist I think we make our job look too easy at times. This ease came through decades of research, mountains of iterative improvements, 8-10 years of training after college and constant vigilance. All in all we love what we do and our dedication shows. The perfect wake up is a never ending goal. I care for VA patients. These patients have illnesses that make "the perfect wakeup" more difficult: 30% of my patients have PTSD, a very high number have a history of Traumatic Brain Injury, many have histories of sexual trauma, many suffer from alcohol and drug addiction and all of the other more common illnesses. Caring for my Veterans is deeply rewarding and puts my skills to test every day. Please keep the humor coming as it is so needed!!
@@khanch.6807 Not really possible, would require an adaptable AI, so keeping anesthesiologists is a must, as you never know when someone won't react to the anesthetic, and there's quite a few variables that decide how much they use
I woke up multiple times during my surgery 😭 they gave me so much that I still wasn't "sleeping" but the whole Sealing was spinning and like eating itself at the same time was weird as hell
Everyone is talking about the nice experiences they have with their anesthesiologist. Now I’m wondering why there are no romantic dramas about anesthesiologists. It’s always the neurosurgeon who gets the credit and get romantized about.
I had the hottest anesthesiologist one time...it was during a c-section though,so not really an appropriate time to find out if he was single or whatever
@@cleanserene6330 lol lucky... my anesthesiologist rolled his eyes at me for asking if the needle will hurt going in for my c section... he was good looking but overshadowed by his rudeness.. my first csection/surgery ever soo I was overwhelmed 🤗
Mad respect to anesthesiologist. They make sure we don't feel the surgeons messing with our organs. They sit there for hours and hours with just a book or puzzle, keeping an eye on the patient. I'm all for books and puzzles, especially suduko, but when you do it for hours every day it has to get boring. I've never met an anesthesiologist I didn't like but I've met plenty of doctors and surgeons I didn't like.
I just had surgery (for the first time) and I was so scared. One of the anesthesia operating nurses or techs saw me crying silently, squeezed my shoulder, and told me it was gonna be ok. Honestly she deserves a raise.
My experience with an anesthesiologist went kinda fine. He was a brutal, brown man with a beard asking me questions before surgery. When it came to surgery, they said, "We will inject you now, then you will fall asleep. Don't worry. We are here to save you, not to hurt you. And when you wake up, please dont cough. We dont want your blood leaking into your lungs." After those words, I closed my eyes and then woke up with him saying,"Do you remember what I said? Don't cough now. We will remove the tube." Such a great guy.
Anesthesia is a tough job man, you’re literally the patients guardian angel making sure they’re good and vitals are find throughout their surgery. They’re second in command in the operating room.
I once got anesthesia: The dr said he’d warn me before putting me to sleep, but then the anesthesiologist just shot me up without warning. I felt myself shutting down uncontrollably. I know it sounds silly, but it was the scariest moment of my life knowing I had no control and I was drifting away. It was so fast I didn’t even have a chance to say, “wait, are you putting me to sleep now?” But I thought it while I went limp…. I woke up hysterical crying, confused, and terrified. The nurse came to me and just said, “it’s okay, some people wake up fine, others wake up screaming, and some people even cry. You’ll be fine”.
@@elenas3571 Ha, I got my 4 wisdom teeth removed and all they gave me was some paracetamol with codein, then a quick local injection of antibiotics and another with anesthesy on the nerve to dull it. Felt the whole thing but no pain, the doctor broke the crown of each one, then pulled it pliers while I was watching the blood go out in tubes and shit. Kinda felt jealous of people in the US getting high for no reason.
similar experienceish, not quite as traumatic, Anesthesiologist gave me a shot and told me to get up on this bed table thing, Last thing I thought before going out was, "Motherfucker why is this table so hard to get on?"
That's awful. I don't understand how people can be so dense - it really does take brave patients making a fuss to change anything. You'd hope all doctors want the best for the patients, but sadly they're human too
To be fair anesthesiologists are highly specialized, and while their work can borderline (or just) boring, the moment something goes wrong or that there's a bad reaction, you're definitely gonna need them. It's a specialization for the same reasons that we have cardiology and ophthalmology separate rather than the same person doing everything and memorizing everything. Too many specific things that could go wrong, that need watched, etc. There's a reason they make bank!
@@salarsan12 Seems like they are learning English, any native speaker would know not to use “how hard is his work” in the middle of a sentence. Making fun of someone trying to learn your language makes you look stupid.
I wish there were more anesthesiologists in hospitals. When I was giving birth to my son I had to wait almost 2 hours for my epidural because the entire Hospital in New York City had one anesthesiologist!
Well there are skeleton crews for non business hours. When normal surgeries are scheduled. Then there would be a much more numeral amount available. So nights and weekends when there aren’t any surgeries scheduled you have probably one a shift.you may have more CRNA’s depending on the size of the hospital.
@@youngswoll3 anesthesiologists are not just readily available ._. This is not hard to believe. It takes so long to become one and you think this isn't possible?
I had an amazing anesthesiologist for my last c-section! He kept talking to me, asking questions about my life and what-not. I knew it was to assess how I was doing. At one point, suddenly my ears started ringing really loud and I got really light-headed and almost passed out. He had asked me a question and I was just like "I don't know ⁉️😫" and he immediately knew something was up and tilted the table. I guess my blood pressure had dropped drastically when the anesthesia kicked in. He was really nice, knowledgeable, and reassuring. 10/10!
On rotation at anaesthesia the specialist i was shadowing described his job as a video game... pressing buttons and figuring out how to keep the patient alive by dodging barrels 🤣
I am a recovering addict. I had a few years sober when I had to have a procedure which required general anesthesia. The anesthesiologist was amazed how long I was up and talking to them. She said that she had never had to use so many medications to put someone out. I assume it is because of the tolerance I had built. It freaks me out that if I ever need to be put under that I will be partially awake.
I went under no problem but woke in agony, despite being assured they would make sure I had enough pain relief to cover me. After several extra doses of morphine had no effect they gave me fentanyl to no avail. Then the anesthetist was like "uh...ketamine!" and then I was great, lol. They looked shocked but I was like, "I told you!" I think everyone says they have high tolerance to pain relief so they just think "yeah, yeah." If there's a next time I'm hoping they skip the morphine and go straight to the ketamine cos that shit was great.
Im also in recovery, H being my DOC, and i remmeber when i woke up i was good to go and completly coherent and walking around and they got so mad and forced me to use the wheelchair provided. I think i blew that ladies mind that day lmao.
It is the tolerance, and it will last for a long time, potentially the rest of your life. This is why people always need to be truthful about prior history about drug use to doctors.
@@tylisirn i was under the impression that, depending on how long the person was in active addiction and the frequency/type of drug, they could slowly lose tolerance over time. Kind of like a ten years on, ten years off sort of deal. I obviously don't expect it to be 1-to-1 like that but doesn't tolerance fade?
Anesthesiologists are always great. They instinctively know that if you're not going to wake up again at least they made sure the last face, the last voice and the last touch you had on Earth were gentle, caring and kind
@@adropintheocean6282 Id assume the doctor would communicate that with them, and then the anesthesiologist would administer some more drugs to keep them asleep for longer until the doctor tells them they are almost done again
@@adropintheocean6282, that’s a legitimate question. We don’t usually actively reverse any anesthetic drug to wake up the patients, even though it’s possible when we’re talking about opiates, reversed with naloxone, and benzodiazepines, reversed with flumazenil. Instead, we either administer boluses of short/medium term acting drugs, like alfentanil and fentanyl, or continuously infuse ultrashort acting ones, like remifentanil and propofol. Inhaled anesthetics, like isoflurane and sevoflurane, are simply turned off and gradually exhaled. Of course all these drugs are also metabolized, reason why we consider age, gender, weight, organ function (hepatic, renal, lung, cardiac, cerebral) to calculate dosages. The choosing process also takes into account the magnitude of the procedure and some other factors. The most common use of reversing drugs is of neuromuscular blockers antagonists, but even those are not always necessary because we can monitor the recovery of neuromuscular activity. For all that it’s important to receive information about the duration of the procedure from the surgical team, so we can gradually reduce the drugs to safely wake up the patient at the end. Eventually there are situations that lead us to keep the patient unconscious until later, for hours or even days, but in these cases they’re left under the supervision of the critical care unit. A heads up about the end of the procedure is also important so we can timely administer drugs to prevent postoperative pain, as well as nausea and vomiting prophylaxis.
@@henriquelaydner4080 as a respiratory therapist student with an anesthesia class atm, that pretty much sums up my entire semester. (Minus a lot of stuff, but very good summary!)
A little story about how an anesthesiologist set me up. I had to change my clothes and lie down on the operating bed, then they took me to a room where a nice anesthesiologist was. The anesthesiologist told me that the first thing he would do is stick a needle in my hand and explain the procedure to me and then the senior physician would come to check and when everything was cleared up they would put me to sleep with the anesthesia. My mistake I believe everything he said. When he stuck the needle in my hand, I suddenly woke up in the recovery room and thought to myself: *this MotherFkr*
Same thing happened to me. It was my first time going under, so I was nervous. The guy said he was *just* putting the needle in, and wasn't gonna connect it up to anything yet. Said he'd walk me through every step as we went along. But all I remember was the needle, before I was waking up in the recovery room. At first I thought he'd just told a little white lie, so I wouldn't be scared. I thought it was funny, even 😂 But I learned later, that sometimes people forget a lot of what happens before they actually go to sleep. For some reason, those few moments just disappear from memory. So it's very likely the guy *did* follow through with explaining everything. I just don't remember it 😂
Mine was with my tonsils, my asthma didn't like the gas coming out of the mask so i asked for air and he told me this was oxygen just not polluted oxygen. I proceeded to ask for polluted oxygen like five seconds before i blacked out. I was seven lol
Mine stuck me with a needle, then I was like 'Ouch, dang... I always thought it was a gas thing' Needle came out, guy pulled out a gas mask thing 'Sure! If you are nervous about needles we can go for gas' I remember starting to drift unconscious before being like 'Wait, the needle was in my dude... what the fuuuu...'
Anesthesiologists have always been the sweetest for any procedure I've had. I haven't spent much time with them in a work setting but the one time I did was great, and it was so sweet to see her comforting the patient getting an endoscopy even though she was completely out.
Last time I woke up from anaesthesia the answer to that question annoyingly was "no"... (Apparently my airway was too difficult to intubate so the operation was cancelled and it was instead done later under partial sedation instead.)
@@tylisirnThat sucks tbh. I'm not sure how they intubate me because I can't seem to breathe when I sleep normally. But howeber they did my procedure, I have no memory of being tubed or untubed and apparently that part went just fine. If anything, that's probably why I felt so well-rested after. I really need to see a doctor about my difficult airways.
anesthesiologists are hands down my favorite medical professionals. i've had 3 surgeries in the past decade and each anesthesiologist taking care of me was so chill and funny and very comforting to be around. ❤️
When I was getting brain surgery last month, right before I was taken for surgery, the anesthesiologist came out to talk to me beforehand. One of the last things I remember is him telling me “it’s a very thin line between “this is going to be a short nap” and never waking up again.” And let me tell you, that scared the shit out of me lmao
Damn no remorse 😂 I was sedated with ketamine for an elbow reset (no brain surgery but it still sucked, props btw) and I just remember existing as energy stuck in different places. So hard to explain but it was a horrible experience 😂
@@Bsonbakery oh god, ketamine sounds like a shitty experience lol though anesthesia hit me like a truck lol I woke up, felt like shit, throwing up, but still was laughing for no apparent reason, which just made my head hurt more. It was probably just the coming down from anesthesia and the morphine, but high me was weird as hell
Im not an anesthesiologist, but worked 4 month in the field during my training. You dont need to worry, the line is not THAT thin. If he were to use a dose that is too high, that might result in a few hours more or maybe overnight ventilation, until you wake up, but it would need like ten or hundred fold the amount to really get into the danger zone. I think what he meant to say is: for some kind of brain surgeries, people are only in shallow sedation and are breathing, the line between shallow sedation and not breathing on your own is quite thin. Its a really frequent thing, that patients go into a deeper sleep for some time and need support breathing. The general risk is pretty low and even when your anesiologist were to have a heart attack on the spot, chances would be very high that you will be woken up with no problem by the assistent or a collegue after some time. There are enough alarms that would be going off if you had a low oxygen saturation.
@@BsonbakeryI do ketamine therapy for PTSD, and the idea of using it for medical procedure sedation is wild. 😅 Like, an effective dose gets me high to the point that I'm flying through cities built with Minecraft blocks inside my head, or watching swirls and bursts of strangely-textured colors... I'd think that kind of experience might be quite disconcerting (even frightening) if you didn't knowingly consent to take something like that, or if you're under any circumstances where you have some medical stressor going on. I know it's kind of commonly used like that, but that's just weird to me, haha.
This is great. I just want to say for people here that anesthesia work is no joke. There was a kid in my high school that went to get his wisdom teeth taken out, but they fucked up the anesthesia and he never woke up. All his friends and family were devastated and the story went around school like a wild fire. it was the biggest thing that happened at my school. Ever since then the idea of being put under freaks me the hell out. And I’d do anything to avoid it.
Bestie I know this is really scary, but please remember it's incredibly uncommon!! There is no need to fear anesthesia; it's kind of weird, admittedly, but avoiding it is just as if not more dangerous as you could be allowing dangerous conditions to persist
Like the other commenter said, it's not common. If the anaesthesiologist monitors the patient's depth of anaesthesia properly, these accidents shouldn't happen. But anaesthesia is the slow poisoning of the body, so it's normal to be scared of it.
@@Fallen4theFallen2 To be fair, the anesthesiologist can do their job perfectly, and once in a great great great while someone will react poorly to anesthesia anyway. But of course it is absolutely incredibly rare for that to happen, and even including the human error piece it's still incredibly rare to have anesthesia deaths, by all means, I don't want to freak OP out, just wanted to stress the fact that it's not automatically a human error if someone does die from anesthesia complications. (Not saying you don't already know this, either, just that your comment could be read easily as implying such a blanket statement so I wanted to add nuance.)
@@ItsAsparageese I was being a bit general, and you're definitely right that sometimes complications happen even with the best laid plans unfortunately. 😕 Which makes it a little scarier, but thanks for the correction. :)
I woke up after anesthesia and kept going “oh fuck sorry did I miss my appointment? Oh sorry I swore.” Took me a while to realize that I was in the hospital and had not, in fact, missed my procedure. 😂 Also got a whole cup of ice chips trying to wake up, shout out to that LT and that nurse that chilled at my bedside with me while I took forever to wake up fully 😅
Only been under once. Still the freakiest feeling I’ve ever experienced, one moment you’re there talking about what your favorite school subject is and the next you’re in a completely different room and your throat feels like you gargled gravel. 10/10 would recommend
I have a real appreciation for anesthesiologist after I got my gallbladder removed. Although everyone was great, they were definitely one of the most calm and reassuring people out of the team who tended to me.
I just got sedated for the first time a few weeks ago, and it honestly felt like an on/off switch. I woke up while being wheeled back to the room where they let people wake up and do vital checks and stuff before sending you back to your waiting room to get ready and go home, and when I woke up it was sudden and I was immediately 100% awake and alert.
Thats pretty much it for me too ive only been under once but i was near fully functional or felt so after being under i just chose to lay there and relax but i still fully remember waking up as i was being wheeled out after sutgery. Couldnt feel my legs though but thats cuzz they numbed my lower half for surgery
Ugh, I love Anesthesiologists and their work cause it's important. But. The feeling of waking up off this shit is a wild ass ride. People in my family have serious complications with it and waking up, so the first time I was put under they feared I'd have the same. I was a tiny little kid. I was halfway to lucid and pissed myself mumbling something about bathrooms according to my family. I don't remember this. The second time I do remember. It was for my tonsils. When I woke up it was sudden. No dreams, quiet pure floating bliss and suddenly I'm jolting awake, no gentle wake up blink the eyes open and get annoyed at bright lights. I curled myself half way into a sit up and hacked a dry throat cough before collapsing back to my bed breathing deeply and trying to remember why my throat hurt so damned much. Scared the shit out of my Nana and nurse. Apparently I'd slept completely peacefully until I suddenly say up. She thought I was gonna throw up blood or something from the procedure too. I had to stay and have both her and the Dr come and check me out just to be sure I'm good to go cause she was still freaked out at my sudden exorcism sit up. Especially cause she'd been in the middle of checking my IV. 😅
Your imagination is absolutely on point. Anaesthesia consists of hours of boredom, minutes of thrill and seconds of horror. Anaesthesia induction and intubation are usually the most difficult part where most things can go wrong, those are the minutes of thrill. Surgery itself usually consists of looking at the vitals and ventilation parameters every so often and, if you still have paper protocols, filling them in - the hours of boredom (I for my part set the alarm limits on the patient monitor and ventilator quite tight so that the machines will alarm me of any change, I meanwhile can read stuff). But if something goes wrong to the degree that I will have to intervene, it is really, really wrong (e.g. sudden massive bleeding, the ventilation tube being dislodged etc.) - seconds of horror.
@@whynotjustmyusername the other day I was chatting to the anaesthetist while removing the drapes and apparently there have been instances of surgeons pulling out the tube while removing the drapes? That sounds terrifying! Can you imagine?! I must admit I've had that at the back of my mind since whenever I remove drapes after the operation.
@@oon-huing1729 I absolutely can imagine because it has almost happened to me before. In general, drapes are a tricky thing. One time I had just wheeled my patient from the induction bay into the OR, we had rewired and retubed them to the ventilator and I sat there and wrote my protocol, when suddenly the monitor gave a VFib alarm. My first thought was "Probably just some artifact", I looked at the ECG and was horrified to see actual VFib. Mere moments away from jumping onto the patient's chest, I then noticed a completely normal pulse oximeter curve... "Wait a second... a pulse oxy curve means he has cardiac output... that means it can't be VFib..." I turned around to see an equally horrified sterile OR nurse petrified amidst the act of applying her sterile drapes close to one of my electrodes. Talk about seconds of horror.
I've had two surgeries requiring anesthesia so far, and each time the anesthesiologist has been amazing even though I'm nervous with my other health conditions. Wonderful people thank you so much for being so great!
My mom had a surgery, whatever they were using to put her under woke her up within 10 minutes after it was stopped, and she was pretty high for a solid hour after that so more or less pretty accurate on the switch
It's even more impressive with children. Usually, a certain type of gas (eg Sevofluran) is used to keep the patient sleeping (used in both adult and children). But if you have a child and you turn off the gas, they "wake" up within a minute. They're not exactly concious, but their whole body contracts and fights against the safety belts you put on during the operation. I've witnessed this once during my anaesthesia internship and they needed two grown man to keep the little girl from involuntarily jumping off the table. With some patients it's literally a switch. And a lot of them are a little high afterwards. Oh, and if there's a gas leak somewhere, the anaesthesiologist is high as well 😂
@@amz7828 That's really fascinating. I've seen animal patients under anaesthesia (currently training as a vet nurse) take like 10 minutes (can be less, but usually not instantly) to wake up. I've always wondered how different it was with humans. Or perhaps the anaesthesia agent they used is the difference (isoflurane commonly used in vet clinics).
@@amz7828 my son recently had oral surgery and when he woke up he was SO UPSET, we were warned of this(it's normal) but it was crazy! He's a very chill child. Literally nothing made him happy we gave him toys and lots of hugs and kisses but still screaming bloody murder haha
@@yukki24 sadly, that's another possible reaction common in children. Sometimes the anaesthesiologist gives the child something to calm them down before they wake up. It reduces stress so waking up is much more pleasant. I do hope he calmed down at some point 😅
As an Operating Room Nurse for 8 years 🤔... I salute people of the Anesthesia World. They are the most Best people I've ever work with. When in work, they really mean business. Seriously and cautiously working every part of the job in well calculated manner ❤️❤️❤️
Best feeling in the world, the only time that I receive a proper rest and to all the anesthesiologist you guy’s and gal’s are true rock star’s, been through so many surgeries and every time this is what I look forward to.
I had a surgery 5 months ago. The anesthesiologist was the highlight of my stay in the hospital. I'm quite introverted, but it was really easy to talk to her. When I was put to sleep she held my hand. I didn't necessarily need it, but it was really nice.
As 37 years of experience in hospitals as a Service Manager and xray tech, these medical videos are so cogent and dead-on, even to someone with peripheral interactions with physicians and their foibles, that everyone in the medical field should be required to watch these..
I was having a throat surgery once and was very very anxious. The doctors were so kind, and helped me through some breathing exercises as the anesthesia kicked in. It was so odd to feel not emotionally calm yet, but to feel my body calming down, but I tried to just ride with it and relax. As someone who's had multiple panic attacks, it was so unfamiliar to feel in the course of seconds mostly out of my ability to control, what it can take a half hour or more to do with a lot of effort on my part normally. My mind was still buzzing, but my limbs started to relax, tension I didn't even know I was holding in my shoulders and everywhere, and it felt like 20 pounds of tension just fell off my chest and actually taking slow deep breaths was so much easier. I think it would've been a lot scarier if they weren't helping me through it and explaining what was going to happen and reassuring me. I'm not sure when exactly I fell asleep, but kudos to the doctors/nurses who helped me feel safe. Also my mom holding my hand :)
I was nervous before getting my wisdom teeth out. I had never been put under before and didn’t know what to expect. My anesthesiologist was so calm and reassuring and stoked my hair as I feel asleep. It was like being in kindergarten again and it instantly calmed me down. Thank your anesthesiologist. They don’t get enough credit. Their the last person you see when you go under and the first you see when you wake up.
I loved my Ketamine anesthesiologist! Nicest lady in the world, and was the best at starting an iv. She did carry a crossword puzzle with her though 😂😂
I had to have a gallbladder removal surgery once and since you are not allowed to eat or drink anything beforehand I was VERY dehydrated. Now when women are dehydrated it can be incredibly difficult to find a vein to start an IV. I had 3 nurses and a head nurse try to get the IV started and I was crying before the anesthesiologist came in an got the IV seated in ONE TRY. I know he doesn't remember me but he made my life so much easier and I was so greatful for him. Anesthesiologists are the true MVPs of the surgical team.
Anesthesiologist are great people. I had to have a major surgery, and they walked me through what was going to happen/how going under was going to feel, things to look for when waking up, etc. When I woke up, one sat and casually talked with me for like 10-15 minutes, which made me feel SO much better.
@@DGlaucomflecken Thank you, Doc. You’ve inspired me a lot in my ongoing med student life and I am starting to love medicine more and more! I appreciate your content a lot too! Thank you for everything and have a great day~!
@@nilanjasa007 That other channel you talked about, is an imposter account. That person literally impersonated the real Dr. G for a whole goddamn year and nobody actually found out!
I remember being put to sleep for some ACL surgery for my Achilles. Oh boy, it was October 29th and I was MAD I couldn't celebrate my favorite holiday. Doc leads me in, I lay down, I'm all prepped and nervous. They gave me a "strawberry" flavored gas. World spins and spins, everyone sounds far away, the world gets dark. It was like a long sleep. I didn't dream, just knew I was asleep. A few seconds later I wake up in recovery. A nurse is checking on me and I ask her where I was. In the softest, sweetest voice she goes "you are in recovery" I remember feeling so heavy I couldn't move anything. I couldn't feel anything. I was paralyzed except for my eyes. After she said that, I watched her walk away. The black took me again. I woke up once, needing to pee but couldn't move a muscle even when I tried. Some nurse came in and I had this stuffed bunny (I still have him) with me. I vaguely remember anything beyond that. Just needing to sleep, everything was heavy. On Oct 31st, I woke up to the itching of pain. I remember sitting up, slowly, petted the rabbit stuffie and call the nurse. After 10 minutes of finally sitting up in what feels like years. I vomit and vomit and vomit. I couldn't sleep because the nausea. I then go back to bed. Nurse came running in after that. She asked me if I was okay, I just grunted at her and slept another few hours. I woke up on Nov 1st. I remember opening my eyes to a woman who looked like my mom, but she was a nurse. Shes like "oh you are awake I'm sorry" I ask her about food. She says I can get you some from the cafeteria. By that point I could've eaten a whole cow raw. She asks me if I would like bacon, eggs, toast. I told her get anything she can find and some water. She comes back 10 minutes later and lets me chow hound it down. That was the best food I ever tasted. I drank so much water I regretted it later. I went home that day and spent the next 2 years learning how to walk, run, etc.
I think that most of the time, you don't remember it because you're on sedatives that block forming of memories. I got a sedative for my gastroscopy and I don't remember a thing even though it took 30 minutes and I was (technically) awake the whole time. It's a side effect but it's good for the patients.
Heads-up, if a red-head asks for you to have extra on hand, please indulge them. You don't want them waking up in the middle of things.The red-head curse is real. 😭
I needed traumatic surgery once. I was a 14-year-old chubby boy with a nasty broken leg and I remember that they gave me a shot into the spine to put me to sleep. I'm not sure if I was resistant to the anesthetic but I woke up in the middle of the surgery and I remember that I just sat there on the table unable to move my legs and watching the procedure they were doing on me. You know, manipulating my flesh with clamps and using their hands to place my fractured bone etc. Oh, man. Everyone in the OR was scared as hell at the moment I sat there staring at them forcing me to lay down and they needed to give me a second painful shot to put me down again. Good times. Life was so much simpler back then.
What to do when something like this happens: from an anesthesiologist I chatted to after getting my wisdom teeth removed. Basically, if the surgery wasn't too severe, take them into an observation room, prop them up in a comfy chair and go do some paperwork till they wake up. For more severe surgery take them to another part of the observation room, leave them in the bed and go do some paperwork till they wake up. Apparently doctors forget to tell the anaesthesiologist when they have like 20 minutes left all the time.
I had back surgery last December and the first shot was amazing. I was wheeled into the OR room and saw like 10 flat screens and asked if we could all game on them....that is all I remember
When I had my emergency C-section, my OB was busy doing the actual C-section. I had a spinal block because I was laboring unmedicated prior to the C-section.The anesthesiologist was the one talking to me. And when it was done and the OB was just finishing closing me up, the anesthesiologist was answering some of my questions (what is this, what is that, etc.).
You triggered a memory: about five months ago now, I had heart surgery for my SVT. I had to get it done twice because they didn’t ablate the problem enough the first time. My second time going in the fucking anesthesiologist (who was the same guy) got into an argument with one of the surgeons assistants. For like 5 minutes, I was laying there, practically naked, listening to this man argue that he needs to see and redo something with his notes on me and I asume the right amount of anesthesia. And cleaning certain things? All of this while being prepped to go under. After those 5 minutes I literally just fell asleep and remember it being quiet both going asleep and waking up. I was actually scared the dude might fuck up and kill me.
@@radicallybean that sounds very unchill, so I wouldn't be confident that an unchill doctor is an anaesthesiologist at all. Good thing you made it, though!
@@radicallybean, I’m sorry you have had such experience. If anything, anesthesiologists should always transmit reassurance to their patients, but let me speak up on behalf of this colleague, for I’ve had my fair share of surgeon induced stress. Usually we get really triggered when we feel that we’re not being given the due time to plan and execute our job in the safest way for the patient. Trust me, it’s way better to have an anesthesiologist that is willing to confront the surgeon if needed than to have one who’s willing to go along with anything he/she proposes.
This is hilarious! That angry look of the anesthesiologist, and the surgeon’s doubtful look when the anesthesiologist asks about an on/off switch are so funny.
When I went in to get a plate put in, my anaesthesiologist was so sweet and great to talk to, she was great to talk with and since I was still awake for a bit longer than she had estimated, did a great job of reassuring me too. Gods bless anaesthesiologists.
I remember I had got a surgery back when I was 7 to get a picc line in for some bad pneumonia and the anesthesiologist was like “watermelon or cherry”, I said watermelon and we started counting down back from 10. By the time I hit 8 I was waking up post surgery to my mom at my side an all I could think was *“wait where’s the fruity air? I want more”*
Anesthesiologists will always be some of my favorite docs. The one they had at boston childrens for my thyroid surgery when i was 17 was super nice and very impressed by my lung capacity.
When I had my surgery the anesthesiologist told me "okay sweetie this is gonna sting a little" (I was 16) and a soon as he got the needle out I said, it's okay, even my piercing hurt more the last thing I heard before falling asleep was his chuckle, it really gave me some comfort.
I had surgery last week so this is hilarious to me, thankfully they explained everything before they poked me, don’t really remember much from the first night but I’m recovering well now
I've been put under general anesthesia a couple times and the other way of knocked out in every single time I've loved it. I always woke up so happy and it lasted for a long time. I cry for all the people in the past who had to live without anesthesia pain killers and antibiotics
Actually, anesthesiologist are on pf the most well payed in the doctoral field. They truly are one of the most important part of the operation. Without them monitoring the patients vitals and prescribing more Anastasia as needed, the patient goes painless. Without them, this would probably end up in a court battle.
The last time I had anesthesia, I told the male nurse how lucky he was getting to work with his female coworker (she was gorgeous). My last words to him were, “Wait, is she going to see me naked?” He didn’t answer before I went out, because he was literally crying from laughter. That was rock bottom for me 😭
I can't believe how many people just had a nice lil nap, waking up fine and dandy while i had to slowly rise from the depths of sleep deprivation hell. Imagine finally being able to sleep after staying awake for 3 days only to then be aggressively pulled out of your bed at 2 in the morning. Absolutely in my top 5 worst minutes of my life.
When I had my baby boy I had a C-section it was my second one and even though I knew what to be prepared for I had a lot of Anxiety and while on the table I started to freak out and the Anesthesiologist doctor was so nice and helpful he helped me through the difficult part and stayed with me after because I had so much anxiety and after it was over and I was in bed he came everyday I was there to help me and make sure feeling safe and secure and that isn't even his job the nurses told me on his paperwork he wrote my special patient lol 😆. So to me I will always remember him. I had my husband there but nothing would calm me down I felt like I was going to die thats how real it was getting for me so yeah I will always remember him fondly.
The second time I had to be anesthetized, I woke up like halfway through. I felt like I was suffocating and kept trying to tell the doctors and nurses that I couldn't breathe, that there was an elephant sitting on my chest (I was still halfway sedated). I started thrashing around to try to convince them to let me breathe and they had to strap me down across the chest. Then I was back out, and woke up again on the way to the recovery room. I had a huge bruise across my chest from struggling against the restraint and on my arm where I had ripped out an IV. My other surgical experiences were just fine (I've had 6), but I hope to never have a repeat of that. I thought I was going to die. The anesthesiologist came to see me in the recovery room afterwards to ask how I was feeling and to tell me I scared the dickens out of him by thrashing around suddenly.
I’ve recently needed multiple surgeries and need a few more this year…the comments are both reassuring and also scary like I didn’t realize how risky it was going under 😅 Big shout out to all the anesthesiologists, I’ve had nothing but warm and positive experiences with you all. You guys help make scary situations much easier ♥️
This is exactly why surgery residents (and obgyn) in my hospital had to do 1 month of anesthesia rotation during their training - basically observing or assisting the staff if we’re short - just so they know what anesthesia expects of them and vice versa. Sadly, they just take it as a 1 month free time off, so none of it seems to stick with them by the time they graduate.
I began speaking to my surgeons right as they removed the camera from my vein during an angiogram. Their shocked reaction tells me they weren't expecting me to be lucid at that point.
My anesthesiologist was a kind reassuring woman who kept talking to me during my c sect. She gave me a lot of advice as i was a first time mom and how to care for my wound. Loved her
I'm so terrified of being put under. The last time I was put under I woke up in this room, thinking I was alone, and tripping right out. The nurse was in the room, I didn't see her behind me, so when I sat up she nearly screamed lol. She was really concerned and asked if I could get up. I got up. She looked even more concerned. Put me in a room. Said the surgeon needs to talk to me. He told me that what happened shouldn't have happened and I'm WAY too coherent and being able to walk isn't something I should be able to do. I was supposed to be out and groggy af for awhile still. Their concern has left me very concerned. He advised me to never voluntarily go under for any procedures (edit like you know how some dentists offer anaesthesia? Like that) be very careful about elective procedures (like cosmetics), because I might end up old and unable to get surgery. The more I go under, the riskier it gets to put me under. They have a threshold where if the patient doesn't go under at a certain level then they call it off because too much can kill you. Great. But you know what's worse? I was in really bad accidents after that, permanent damage, so I'm on meds. *Some of my meds cause people to be resistant to anaesthesia* like are you joking?? So now it's worse. Quite a bit worse. So yeah I'm scared of being put under lol. What if I'm old and need surgery and can't get it? Or die on the table? Sucks dude. Knowing this sucks.
@@bookofnyx3409 Depends on the surgery. I did not HAVE to be put under for wisdom teeth removal but that is regular protocol and no one had any reason to think I was one of those weird people who metabolize and adjust to substances weirdly fast. Like I take meds every 8 hours instead of every 12 because my body goes through it faster. The issue is that there are plenty of surgeries that require you to be asleep so it's just a matter of odds whether or not I need one of them. But it's like... Lots of people develop problems with their hearts, knees, hips. Lots of cancer surgery requires it. You never know.
@@purduephotog I feel like that comment is just a fragment of your full thoughts? You warned who about what each and every time you did what? What do you mean by "open up under light sedation repeatedly"? Like do you mean have the anaesthesiologist give me less sedation so they can repeatedly wake me up and put me back under during a surgery? Or are you referring to the practice of light anaesthesia? Because yeah like I said, there are surgeries where you can elect to not be put under, or only get light anaesthesia, but sometimes it's necessary. And when you wake up you're still paralyzed and the other drugs are working so you can't tell anyone you are awake and that just scares the shit out of me. It's really my only true fear. Like I've nearly died and have chronic pain and so death and pain don't scare me. People have killed themselves after that happening because the experience is so horrifying and traumatic.
If used in incorrect quantities yes. When used by a professional it is a wonderful tool. A hatchet is dangerous but if used by a lumberjack it is a helpful tool.
Man I had local anesthesia for a procedure involving removing a tiny larval human, and another more unwanted tenant. No one told the anesthesiologist that the second one was higher up in my abdomen and when I started feeling the surgery only then did the guy get the memo. That Dr. had me knocked the heck out in record time, woke up with some stitches and a headache instead of permanent surgical PTSD.
The first time I ever went under, they had a anesthesiologist help me out. I think she was pretty new to the game because she tortured me for about 15 minutes because she couldn’t get my van. She called in the expert, he came and he got my vein in less than a minute then he told me you were gonna talk about some things… And then I woke up in recovery really needing to pee. I wished for her pillow to be warm for a year… forgive me.
I was under general anaesthesia only once in my life but it was a really pleasant experience. I remember falling asleep and woke up when they were about to wheel me out of the OR. I felt ecstatic and couldn’t stop thanking the surgeons and telling everyone how much I loved them. 😅
“Putting people to sleep is easy. It’s the making sure they wake up again part that’s difficult.”
Very true!!
You could call them poison experts and you'd not be far off.
It's their job to poison you not too much, not too little.
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@@roetemeteor dude how do you know that 😤😟
It’s the craziest experience going from fully awake and a little scared to then being woken in a different room. It’s like blinking and teleporting somewhere else. I was convinced as a kid that they didn’t actually operate on me since it all felt so quick.
yeah it was like one minute I was really happy (they gave me a make-happy drug before the anesthesia) and singing a little song to myself and then I watched a wild light show and then the nurses were talking to me telling me that everything went ok and I didn't die.
I had wisdom teeth out at 14. I'm positive my father who picked me up was told that I might utter things that I normally wouldn't, in my groggy state.
And good thing. I'd had a bad dream that I was feeling weak and my father was making me walk across a huge parking lot to take me home.
At my bedside, after he spoke to me, it was "Jfc, DAD! If you make me walk across that g-d damded f'ing parking lot...I swear...!!"
"No need. Don't worry..I'm parked right outside.."
LOL
(I NEVER spoke like that even with friends.. But obviously heard it from somewhere, ha!)
Right? I went under general anesthesia and it felt no like no time at all passed. Except it did and I woke up with a sore throat and then felt a bit later pain from my surgery 😅
Same. I just remember feeling a few horrible seconds of burning pain (someone injected the sedative too quickly) and then I had teleported to a dimly lit room and had a sheet covering me again.
Same with me. I said to them "Why didn't you start yet?" It was instant. As if I hadn't skipped any time and was questioning why they were telling me I was all done.
I had eye surgery a couple of years ago and full fucking credit to the anesthesiologist, he told me to count back from 10, I don't remember past 7, four hours later I'm in a lovely bed having a cup of tea and able to see for the first time in 3 months, absolute godsends all of them 💜
I think they do that countdown just to mess with us
@@knightofficer it's because we start garbling hilariously. One day i'll beat them to 0
@@mandowarrior123 My sister got to 0 and asked what now? They had to up the amount a lot and was seeing things coming out the walls for days. Apparently it is pretty rare.
Mine said count back from 100, I probably got to 97 before I passed out. At least that’s what I remember! Lol
@@delta250a is she a redhead?
I was expecting anesthesia to be annoyed that he started a new crossword and didn't have time to finish it now.
No! No crossword. They like Sudoku 🤣
Nah, they be playing candy crush these days
@@nihitkhunteta6137 no phones in the operating room!!!
@@aaron8977 Who told you that you can't have phones in the OR ?
There's no rule that days you can't have it given you're not operating on the patient and have it properly sanitized.
Besides I remember some days ago I took some photos of a guy with well let's say..... Succeeded to make some finger smoothie 😅 Repair of that made me throw away the really good rose smoothie that I made
@@nihitkhunteta6137 I’m just messing around relax
I had a surgery recently: the anesthesiologist was so calm, reassuring and caring that he managed to make me feel comfortable despite what was about to happen. He was also teaching a student on how to treat a patient: he made sure to keep me warm (the or is freezing), used very sweet talking and held his hand on my head while putting me under. And when I woke up he was still there, asking me questions and telling me that I did good, cheering me up. I was very very grateful, he did an amazing job!
hope your post-op recovery is going well!
Most anesthesiologists are wonderful! I have chronic health problems and medical PTSD and they always make me so calm. I’ve even had one give me anxiety meds cause he saw how anxious I was for a minor process that I have severe PTSD over. I’ve had bad experiences with many doctors and nurses, but all the anesthesiologists I’ve met are wonderful. I always feel so comfortable and calm when they come into the room
I also too had surgery recently, the 30th, hope you’re doing good!! ❤️
I think they are supposed to be like this because surgery might be stressful for some people
@@marioduvi8643 yes they are support to be so are doctors but not all are so nice and understanding 😐
I recently had an IR procedure that they would not normally put you out for. I have CPTSD and Medical PTSD. The anesthesiologist, having read my chart, came to me and was so kind and understanding. Not only did he assure me that I would be sedated prior to the procedure, but he prepared the room and the staff. When they took me in, there was soft music playing and they treated me like fine china. I was so grateful for him.
Nice, I have medical PTSD too and it really sucks
Wow, that sounds so much like my recent experience that I had to comment. I also had an IR procedure they don't normally put you out for, and have CPTSD and medical PTSD. My doctor was incredibly compassionate, and did so much work to try and make sure the experience would be comfortable for me. Unfortunately, some of the things were out of her control (things related to how the hospital worked), but she did her best to find ways to make it work for me. Having that person on your team who understands your difficulties and will make a great effort on your behalf is such a comforting experience when you're in that sort of situation.
Had one the same… so great!!
Medical PTSD sounds terrible! You're in there to have an operation done to save your life, but if the conditions are wrong, you might have life-threatening complications due to traumatic reflexes just from the stress of the situation that's there to save your life in the first place!
Last time I had a surgery done the anesthesiologist held my hand (he apparently does that to every patient who allows him) cause doesn’t want them to feel alone fading into the dark and unknown. It honestly warmed my heart so much that the last thing I thought was literally “I’m in good hands, it’s gonna be fine”.
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Lol, when I went for surgery, it was early in the morning. As soon as I was hooked up I peace’d out without the anesthesia at all. Then woke up in recovery. It was pretty great
No way he does that with male patients lol
I had an anesthesiologist that was really sweet. He asked me if I wanted him to do anything while I went out, and I felt really embarrassed asking him to pet my forehead like my mom used to. He was excited to be able to help and actually said he enjoys finding the different things that comfort people, he loves his job and doesn't want anyone afraid when they slip into the anesthesia. By far the best experience I've ever had. He even texted my husband throughout the procedure to keep him updated!
@@Miss-tx8re that’s lovely!
I know this was posted previously on the account which must not be named, but it’s one of my personal favorites. Thanks for watching!
Dude, dont worry about posting your old videos that the other account previously stole. Its your content, you get to post it.
And personally, there are a lot of your videos that they stole that I miss. Would love for you to post them again so I can watch them!
Please repost everything , it’s a great excuse to watch the videos all over again
"account which must not be named"
Dr. Voldemflecken?
Could you also repost the first days medical students series separately? It's fine to have them put together in a video, but I would like to share only a few of them. 😅
@@seeyouchump yes I’ll post all those
Thank you Dr. Glaucomflecken for bringing us a good chuckle! Speaking as an Anesthesiologist I think we make our job look too easy at times. This ease came through decades of research, mountains of iterative improvements, 8-10 years of training after college and constant vigilance. All in all we love what we do and our dedication shows. The perfect wake up is a never ending goal. I care for VA patients. These patients have illnesses that make "the perfect wakeup" more difficult: 30% of my patients have PTSD, a very high number have a history of Traumatic Brain Injury, many have histories of sexual trauma, many suffer from alcohol and drug addiction and all of the other more common illnesses. Caring for my Veterans is deeply rewarding and puts my skills to test every day. Please keep the humor coming as it is so needed!!
Thank you for your service to those who served.
The funny thing is a resident in anesthesia described his job by just pressing a button to sleep his patients
Sounds like a job to be replace soon by an AI.
*trains hand like in spongebob to press s button*
@@khanch.6807 Not really possible, would require an adaptable AI, so keeping anesthesiologists is a must, as you never know when someone won't react to the anesthetic, and there's quite a few variables that decide how much they use
@@CafeLiquerstreams like… are they a natural redhead 😅
Well thats a huge oversimplification for sure
Anaesthesia literally makes sure you don’t die from the medication used to sedate you so they got all my respect
Exactly
They want you to die just a little. Just not all the way.
I'm sorry what-
@@chrissy1997 well yeah, if they give too much anesthesia you die. The anesthesiologist regulates it and keeps you alive but also asleep.
Too less anaesthesia and you wake up in unimaginable pain. Too much and you die from the toxic overdose. Careful balance.
"we dont have a huge anesthesia switch!!"
"but you have a tiny one, right?"
You can’t be EXPOSING anesthesiologists like that 🤣
As an anesthesiologist I can confirm this is a 100% real
@@joshuagomez5952 as a fake anesthesiologist I can also confirm that this is 100% real, trust me I would know
@@joshuagomez5952 as a person who prefers cats over dogs I can confirm that this is 100% true
Very real 10 years of school and I can confirm this is what we do
@@joshuagomez5952 As a person i can confirm that this is 100% real
I thought the anesthesiologist woke up the patient earlier than expected.
I thought he put to much and let him go 🤭😂
They didn't?
@@jesusfranciscomenesesvera2247 it's not possible, patient won't cooperate without anesthesia.
@Hulda's Journey • correct.
I woke up multiple times during my surgery 😭 they gave me so much that I still wasn't "sleeping" but the whole Sealing was spinning and like eating itself at the same time was weird as hell
Everyone is talking about the nice experiences they have with their anesthesiologist. Now I’m wondering why there are no romantic dramas about anesthesiologists. It’s always the neurosurgeon who gets the credit and get romantized about.
Have you ever met Dr Drake Ramoray? Yes, he has had just as many sexual encounters as Friend Joey Tribbiani.
Because the anesthesiologist is the 'nice guy' in the operating ward...
I had the hottest anesthesiologist one time...it was during a c-section though,so not really an appropriate time to find out if he was single or whatever
@@cleanserene6330 Just ask him. At least he knows what he's dealing with. And if he finds you attractiv at /that/ moment, he'll never leave your side.
@@cleanserene6330 lol lucky... my anesthesiologist rolled his eyes at me for asking if the needle will hurt going in for my c section... he was good looking but overshadowed by his rudeness.. my first csection/surgery ever soo I was overwhelmed 🤗
Mad respect to anesthesiologist. They make sure we don't feel the surgeons messing with our organs. They sit there for hours and hours with just a book or puzzle, keeping an eye on the patient. I'm all for books and puzzles, especially suduko, but when you do it for hours every day it has to get boring. I've never met an anesthesiologist I didn't like but I've met plenty of doctors and surgeons I didn't like.
Nowadays they Netflix and chill
Lol!!
The moment everything goes down they are the silent hero that keep you alive ! 💚 massive respect!
@@kirikothesmug3028 do you know what that means?
@@youzhou3001 who doesn’t?
I just had surgery (for the first time) and I was so scared. One of the anesthesia operating nurses or techs saw me crying silently, squeezed my shoulder, and told me it was gonna be ok. Honestly she deserves a raise.
My experience with an anesthesiologist went kinda fine. He was a brutal, brown man with a beard asking me questions before surgery. When it came to surgery, they said, "We will inject you now, then you will fall asleep. Don't worry. We are here to save you, not to hurt you. And when you wake up, please dont cough. We dont want your blood leaking into your lungs." After those words, I closed my eyes and then woke up with him saying,"Do you remember what I said? Don't cough now. We will remove the tube." Such a great guy.
Simple and to the point, nice
I’m imagining Doc Saturday from the Secret Saturdays in medical scrubs when you describe him.
Ansethisia deserve more respect! Do you know how HARD it is to do puzzles all day?! Your brain explodes!
Then you'd need anesthesia to get brain surgery!
My brain trembles!
Its even harder to play on your cell phone for hours. 🥵
I made them earn their money when I was in surgery... Kept waking out of it making them put me back out XD
@@a..4255 Most brain surgeries don't use much more than local due to neural connections
Anesthesia is a tough job man, you’re literally the patients guardian angel making sure they’re good and vitals are find throughout their surgery. They’re second in command in the operating room.
it is literally so easy lol
@@alex-px1uz When everything is going right...
@@tylisirn yea sure, which is 95% of the time. 30 minutes of actual work in the average week
Yep. If tragically a death occurs in O R it is statisticed as either a Surgical or an Anesthesia death
@@alex-px1uz spoken like someone who’s never worked in anesthesia. What experience have you to make that claim?
I once got anesthesia: The dr said he’d warn me before putting me to sleep, but then the anesthesiologist just shot me up without warning. I felt myself shutting down uncontrollably. I know it sounds silly, but it was the scariest moment of my life knowing I had no control and I was drifting away. It was so fast I didn’t even have a chance to say, “wait, are you putting me to sleep now?” But I thought it while I went limp…. I woke up hysterical crying, confused, and terrified. The nurse came to me and just said, “it’s okay, some people wake up fine, others wake up screaming, and some people even cry. You’ll be fine”.
Apparently when I had my wisdom teeth surgery I woke up giggling and saying “smoothie” because my mom said I could get smoothie king after my surgery.
Some medical staff have no bedside manners and make the experience so much more traumatic than it needs to be im sorry you had to go through that
@@elenas3571 Ha, I got my 4 wisdom teeth removed and all they gave me was some paracetamol with codein, then a quick local injection of antibiotics and another with anesthesy on the nerve to dull it. Felt the whole thing but no pain, the doctor broke the crown of each one, then pulled it pliers while I was watching the blood go out in tubes and shit. Kinda felt jealous of people in the US getting high for no reason.
similar experienceish, not quite as traumatic, Anesthesiologist gave me a shot and told me to get up on this bed table thing, Last thing I thought before going out was, "Motherfucker why is this table so hard to get on?"
That's awful. I don't understand how people can be so dense - it really does take brave patients making a fuss to change anything.
You'd hope all doctors want the best for the patients, but sadly they're human too
Anesthesia is a master of making others to believe, how hard is his work, and how specialised he is :) I admire him :) +
They think ahead so bad things don't happen, but threy're prepared if they do! A boring day is a good day.
As long as you have enough propofol drawn up you good to go lol.
To be fair anesthesiologists are highly specialized, and while their work can borderline (or just) boring, the moment something goes wrong or that there's a bad reaction, you're definitely gonna need them. It's a specialization for the same reasons that we have cardiology and ophthalmology separate rather than the same person doing everything and memorizing everything. Too many specific things that could go wrong, that need watched, etc. There's a reason they make bank!
The way you use commas in your sentence is actually amazingly stupid.
@@salarsan12 Seems like they are learning English, any native speaker would know not to use “how hard is his work” in the middle of a sentence. Making fun of someone trying to learn your language makes you look stupid.
I wish there were more anesthesiologists in hospitals. When I was giving birth to my son I had to wait almost 2 hours for my epidural because the entire Hospital in New York City had one anesthesiologist!
Omg why
I’ll take “Things that never happened” for $500 Alex
Well there are skeleton crews for non business hours. When normal surgeries are scheduled. Then there would be a much more numeral amount available. So nights and weekends when there aren’t any surgeries scheduled you have probably one a shift.you may have more CRNA’s depending on the size of the hospital.
@@youngswoll3 anesthesiologists are not just readily available ._. This is not hard to believe. It takes so long to become one and you think this isn't possible?
I only took back my thumbs up cuz we are at 69.... I couldn't interrupt the moment on genius. Very proud of you mam. Hope the med system improves.
I had an amazing anesthesiologist for my last c-section! He kept talking to me, asking questions about my life and what-not. I knew it was to assess how I was doing. At one point, suddenly my ears started ringing really loud and I got really light-headed and almost passed out. He had asked me a question and I was just like "I don't know ⁉️😫" and he immediately knew something was up and tilted the table. I guess my blood pressure had dropped drastically when the anesthesia kicked in. He was really nice, knowledgeable, and reassuring. 10/10!
On rotation at anaesthesia the specialist i was shadowing described his job as a video game... pressing buttons and figuring out how to keep the patient alive by dodging barrels 🤣
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I am a recovering addict. I had a few years sober when I had to have a procedure which required general anesthesia. The anesthesiologist was amazed how long I was up and talking to them. She said that she had never had to use so many medications to put someone out. I assume it is because of the tolerance I had built. It freaks me out that if I ever need to be put under that I will be partially awake.
I went under no problem but woke in agony, despite being assured they would make sure I had enough pain relief to cover me. After several extra doses of morphine had no effect they gave me fentanyl to no avail. Then the anesthetist was like "uh...ketamine!" and then I was great, lol. They looked shocked but I was like, "I told you!"
I think everyone says they have high tolerance to pain relief so they just think "yeah, yeah."
If there's a next time I'm hoping they skip the morphine and go straight to the ketamine cos that shit was great.
Im also in recovery, H being my DOC, and i remmeber when i woke up i was good to go and completly coherent and walking around and they got so mad and forced me to use the wheelchair provided. I think i blew that ladies mind that day lmao.
It is the tolerance, and it will last for a long time, potentially the rest of your life. This is why people always need to be truthful about prior history about drug use to doctors.
Bro u should go and fight people with Tranquiliser guns they’d be so freaked out when u still alive
@@tylisirn i was under the impression that, depending on how long the person was in active addiction and the frequency/type of drug, they could slowly lose tolerance over time. Kind of like a ten years on, ten years off sort of deal. I obviously don't expect it to be 1-to-1 like that but doesn't tolerance fade?
Anesthesiologists are always great. They instinctively know that if you're not going to wake up again at least they made sure the last face, the last voice and the last touch you had on Earth were gentle, caring and kind
As an anesthesiologist myself, I still experience this when I’m with surgeons I don’t usually work with. I ask them for a 30 minutes warning.
@@adropintheocean6282 Id assume the doctor would communicate that with them, and then the anesthesiologist would administer some more drugs to keep them asleep for longer until the doctor tells them they are almost done again
@@adropintheocean6282, that’s a legitimate question. We don’t usually actively reverse any anesthetic drug to wake up the patients, even though it’s possible when we’re talking about opiates, reversed with naloxone, and benzodiazepines, reversed with flumazenil. Instead, we either administer boluses of short/medium term acting drugs, like alfentanil and fentanyl, or continuously infuse ultrashort acting ones, like remifentanil and propofol. Inhaled anesthetics, like isoflurane and sevoflurane, are simply turned off and gradually exhaled. Of course all these drugs are also metabolized, reason why we consider age, gender, weight, organ function (hepatic, renal, lung, cardiac, cerebral) to calculate dosages. The choosing process also takes into account the magnitude of the procedure and some other factors.
The most common use of reversing drugs is of neuromuscular blockers antagonists, but even those are not always necessary because we can monitor the recovery of neuromuscular activity.
For all that it’s important to receive information about the duration of the procedure from the surgical team, so we can gradually reduce the drugs to safely wake up the patient at the end. Eventually there are situations that lead us to keep the patient unconscious until later, for hours or even days, but in these cases they’re left under the supervision of the critical care unit.
A heads up about the end of the procedure is also important so we can timely administer drugs to prevent postoperative pain, as well as nausea and vomiting prophylaxis.
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@@henriquelaydner4080 thanks for sharing your knowledge! I enjoyed reading it :)
@@henriquelaydner4080 as a respiratory therapist student with an anesthesia class atm, that pretty much sums up my entire semester. (Minus a lot of stuff, but very good summary!)
A little story about how an anesthesiologist set me up.
I had to change my clothes and lie down on the operating bed, then they took me to a room where a nice anesthesiologist was.
The anesthesiologist told me that the first thing he would do is stick a needle in my hand and explain the procedure to me and then the senior physician would come to check and when everything was cleared up they would put me to sleep with the anesthesia.
My mistake I believe everything he said.
When he stuck the needle in my hand, I suddenly woke up in the recovery room and thought to myself: *this MotherFkr*
The anesthesiologist probably did not lie to you. Coud just have been a retrograde amnesia which is quite common after anesthesia
Same thing happened to me. It was my first time going under, so I was nervous. The guy said he was *just* putting the needle in, and wasn't gonna connect it up to anything yet. Said he'd walk me through every step as we went along. But all I remember was the needle, before I was waking up in the recovery room.
At first I thought he'd just told a little white lie, so I wouldn't be scared. I thought it was funny, even 😂 But I learned later, that sometimes people forget a lot of what happens before they actually go to sleep. For some reason, those few moments just disappear from memory. So it's very likely the guy *did* follow through with explaining everything. I just don't remember it 😂
Mine stuck me and started asking me my favorite radio station and then i woke up in recovery
Mine was with my tonsils, my asthma didn't like the gas coming out of the mask so i asked for air and he told me this was oxygen just not polluted oxygen. I proceeded to ask for polluted oxygen like five seconds before i blacked out. I was seven lol
Mine stuck me with a needle, then I was like 'Ouch, dang... I always thought it was a gas thing'
Needle came out, guy pulled out a gas mask thing
'Sure! If you are nervous about needles we can go for gas'
I remember starting to drift unconscious before being like 'Wait, the needle was in my dude... what the fuuuu...'
Anesthesiologists have always been the sweetest for any procedure I've had. I haven't spent much time with them in a work setting but the one time I did was great, and it was so sweet to see her comforting the patient getting an endoscopy even though she was completely out.
The ending broke me because first time I got up from anestesia I literally said "we're done?" As soon as I woke up
That’s hilarious 😂
Mee to lol
Last time I woke up from anaesthesia the answer to that question annoyingly was "no"...
(Apparently my airway was too difficult to intubate so the operation was cancelled and it was instead done later under partial sedation instead.)
@@tylisirn the surgery equivalent of sleeping Xmas eve and waking up before midnight
@@tylisirnThat sucks tbh. I'm not sure how they intubate me because I can't seem to breathe when I sleep normally. But howeber they did my procedure, I have no memory of being tubed or untubed and apparently that part went just fine. If anything, that's probably why I felt so well-rested after. I really need to see a doctor about my difficult airways.
anesthesiologists are hands down my favorite medical professionals. i've had 3 surgeries in the past decade and each anesthesiologist taking care of me was so chill and funny and very comforting to be around. ❤️
When I was getting brain surgery last month, right before I was taken for surgery, the anesthesiologist came out to talk to me beforehand. One of the last things I remember is him telling me “it’s a very thin line between “this is going to be a short nap” and never waking up again.” And let me tell you, that scared the shit out of me lmao
Damn no remorse 😂 I was sedated with ketamine for an elbow reset (no brain surgery but it still sucked, props btw) and I just remember existing as energy stuck in different places. So hard to explain but it was a horrible experience 😂
@@Bsonbakery oh god, ketamine sounds like a shitty experience lol though anesthesia hit me like a truck lol I woke up, felt like shit, throwing up, but still was laughing for no apparent reason, which just made my head hurt more. It was probably just the coming down from anesthesia and the morphine, but high me was weird as hell
Im not an anesthesiologist, but worked 4 month in the field during my training. You dont need to worry, the line is not THAT thin. If he were to use a dose that is too high, that might result in a few hours more or maybe overnight ventilation, until you wake up, but it would need like ten or hundred fold the amount to really get into the danger zone.
I think what he meant to say is: for some kind of brain surgeries, people are only in shallow sedation and are breathing, the line between shallow sedation and not breathing on your own is quite thin. Its a really frequent thing, that patients go into a deeper sleep for some time and need support breathing.
The general risk is pretty low and even when your anesiologist were to have a heart attack on the spot, chances would be very high that you will be woken up with no problem by the assistent or a collegue after some time. There are enough alarms that would be going off if you had a low oxygen saturation.
@@BsonbakeryI do ketamine therapy for PTSD, and the idea of using it for medical procedure sedation is wild. 😅 Like, an effective dose gets me high to the point that I'm flying through cities built with Minecraft blocks inside my head, or watching swirls and bursts of strangely-textured colors... I'd think that kind of experience might be quite disconcerting (even frightening) if you didn't knowingly consent to take something like that, or if you're under any circumstances where you have some medical stressor going on. I know it's kind of commonly used like that, but that's just weird to me, haha.
Yeah he’s supposed to tell you the risks so you have a chance to say aw hell no if you want (but you probably wouldnt want to if you need surgery)
This is great. I just want to say for people here that anesthesia work is no joke. There was a kid in my high school that went to get his wisdom teeth taken out, but they fucked up the anesthesia and he never woke up. All his friends and family were devastated and the story went around school like a wild fire. it was the biggest thing that happened at my school. Ever since then the idea of being put under freaks me the hell out. And I’d do anything to avoid it.
Bestie I know this is really scary, but please remember it's incredibly uncommon!! There is no need to fear anesthesia; it's kind of weird, admittedly, but avoiding it is just as if not more dangerous as you could be allowing dangerous conditions to persist
Lol 😂
Like the other commenter said, it's not common. If the anaesthesiologist monitors the patient's depth of anaesthesia properly, these accidents shouldn't happen. But anaesthesia is the slow poisoning of the body, so it's normal to be scared of it.
@@Fallen4theFallen2 To be fair, the anesthesiologist can do their job perfectly, and once in a great great great while someone will react poorly to anesthesia anyway. But of course it is absolutely incredibly rare for that to happen, and even including the human error piece it's still incredibly rare to have anesthesia deaths, by all means, I don't want to freak OP out, just wanted to stress the fact that it's not automatically a human error if someone does die from anesthesia complications. (Not saying you don't already know this, either, just that your comment could be read easily as implying such a blanket statement so I wanted to add nuance.)
@@ItsAsparageese I was being a bit general, and you're definitely right that sometimes complications happen even with the best laid plans unfortunately. 😕 Which makes it a little scarier, but thanks for the correction. :)
I woke up after anesthesia and kept going “oh fuck sorry did I miss my appointment? Oh sorry I swore.” Took me a while to realize that I was in the hospital and had not, in fact, missed my procedure. 😂
Also got a whole cup of ice chips trying to wake up, shout out to that LT and that nurse that chilled at my bedside with me while I took forever to wake up fully 😅
That's great. 😂 Tbh, you probably said that 20 times before you started remembering things again.
Only been under once. Still the freakiest feeling I’ve ever experienced, one moment you’re there talking about what your favorite school subject is and the next you’re in a completely different room and your throat feels like you gargled gravel. 10/10 would recommend
My uncle (now retired) was an anesthesiologist for many many years. I'm sure he's seen many things, he's a very calm and kind being too.
I have a real appreciation for anesthesiologist after I got my gallbladder removed. Although everyone was great, they were definitely one of the most calm and reassuring people out of the team who tended to me.
I just got sedated for the first time a few weeks ago, and it honestly felt like an on/off switch. I woke up while being wheeled back to the room where they let people wake up and do vital checks and stuff before sending you back to your waiting room to get ready and go home, and when I woke up it was sudden and I was immediately 100% awake and alert.
Thats pretty much it for me too ive only been under once but i was near fully functional or felt so after being under i just chose to lay there and relax but i still fully remember waking up as i was being wheeled out after sutgery. Couldnt feel my legs though but thats cuzz they numbed my lower half for surgery
Ugh, I love Anesthesiologists and their work cause it's important. But. The feeling of waking up off this shit is a wild ass ride. People in my family have serious complications with it and waking up, so the first time I was put under they feared I'd have the same. I was a tiny little kid. I was halfway to lucid and pissed myself mumbling something about bathrooms according to my family. I don't remember this. The second time I do remember. It was for my tonsils. When I woke up it was sudden. No dreams, quiet pure floating bliss and suddenly I'm jolting awake, no gentle wake up blink the eyes open and get annoyed at bright lights. I curled myself half way into a sit up and hacked a dry throat cough before collapsing back to my bed breathing deeply and trying to remember why my throat hurt so damned much. Scared the shit out of my Nana and nurse. Apparently I'd slept completely peacefully until I suddenly say up. She thought I was gonna throw up blood or something from the procedure too. I had to stay and have both her and the Dr come and check me out just to be sure I'm good to go cause she was still freaked out at my sudden exorcism sit up. Especially cause she'd been in the middle of checking my IV. 😅
Ironically, I imagine start/end of surgery to be the most stressful parts for an anesthesiologist.
Your imagination is absolutely on point. Anaesthesia consists of hours of boredom, minutes of thrill and seconds of horror. Anaesthesia induction and intubation are usually the most difficult part where most things can go wrong, those are the minutes of thrill. Surgery itself usually consists of looking at the vitals and ventilation parameters every so often and, if you still have paper protocols, filling them in - the hours of boredom (I for my part set the alarm limits on the patient monitor and ventilator quite tight so that the machines will alarm me of any change, I meanwhile can read stuff). But if something goes wrong to the degree that I will have to intervene, it is really, really wrong (e.g. sudden massive bleeding, the ventilation tube being dislodged etc.) - seconds of horror.
@@whynotjustmyusername the other day I was chatting to the anaesthetist while removing the drapes and apparently there have been instances of surgeons pulling out the tube while removing the drapes? That sounds terrifying! Can you imagine?! I must admit I've had that at the back of my mind since whenever I remove drapes after the operation.
@@oon-huing1729 I absolutely can imagine because it has almost happened to me before. In general, drapes are a tricky thing. One time I had just wheeled my patient from the induction bay into the OR, we had rewired and retubed them to the ventilator and I sat there and wrote my protocol, when suddenly the monitor gave a VFib alarm. My first thought was "Probably just some artifact", I looked at the ECG and was horrified to see actual VFib. Mere moments away from jumping onto the patient's chest, I then noticed a completely normal pulse oximeter curve... "Wait a second... a pulse oxy curve means he has cardiac output... that means it can't be VFib..." I turned around to see an equally horrified sterile OR nurse petrified amidst the act of applying her sterile drapes close to one of my electrodes. Talk about seconds of horror.
Yeah I imagine it’s similar to flying a plane takeoff and landing are by far the most stressful parts
There’s only one thing worse than a patient who won’t go to sleep, one that doesn’t wake up!
I've had two surgeries requiring anesthesia so far, and each time the anesthesiologist has been amazing even though I'm nervous with my other health conditions. Wonderful people thank you so much for being so great!
So true, you have to be annoyed so the surgeon feels guilty. On the other hand you just switch off everything and call it a day
My mom had a surgery, whatever they were using to put her under woke her up within 10 minutes after it was stopped, and she was pretty high for a solid hour after that so more or less pretty accurate on the switch
It's even more impressive with children. Usually, a certain type of gas (eg Sevofluran) is used to keep the patient sleeping (used in both adult and children). But if you have a child and you turn off the gas, they "wake" up within a minute. They're not exactly concious, but their whole body contracts and fights against the safety belts you put on during the operation. I've witnessed this once during my anaesthesia internship and they needed two grown man to keep the little girl from involuntarily jumping off the table. With some patients it's literally a switch. And a lot of them are a little high afterwards. Oh, and if there's a gas leak somewhere, the anaesthesiologist is high as well 😂
@@amz7828 That's really fascinating. I've seen animal patients under anaesthesia (currently training as a vet nurse) take like 10 minutes (can be less, but usually not instantly) to wake up. I've always wondered how different it was with humans. Or perhaps the anaesthesia agent they used is the difference (isoflurane commonly used in vet clinics).
@@amz7828 my son recently had oral surgery and when he woke up he was SO UPSET, we were warned of this(it's normal) but it was crazy! He's a very chill child. Literally nothing made him happy we gave him toys and lots of hugs and kisses but still screaming bloody murder haha
@@yukki24 sadly, that's another possible reaction common in children. Sometimes the anaesthesiologist gives the child something to calm them down before they wake up. It reduces stress so waking up is much more pleasant. I do hope he calmed down at some point 😅
@@amz7828 yeah he's doing much better! Last night he had quite the episode with a bad dream we're still working on convincing him those aren't real 😅
As an Operating Room Nurse for 8 years 🤔... I salute people of the Anesthesia World. They are the most Best people I've ever work with. When in work, they really mean business. Seriously and cautiously working every part of the job in well calculated manner ❤️❤️❤️
I love anesthesiologists bc so many become pain management doctors and treat pain in a humane way. God bless anesthesiologists!
Best feeling in the world, the only time that I receive a proper rest and to all the anesthesiologist you guy’s and gal’s are true rock star’s, been through so many surgeries and every time this is what I look forward to.
I had a surgery 5 months ago. The anesthesiologist was the highlight of my stay in the hospital. I'm quite introverted, but it was really easy to talk to her. When I was put to sleep she held my hand. I didn't necessarily need it, but it was really nice.
I thought he was gonna be like “but I never put the patient to sleep” 😦
As 37 years of experience in hospitals as a Service Manager and xray tech, these medical videos are so cogent and dead-on, even to someone with peripheral interactions with physicians and their foibles, that everyone in the medical field should be required to watch these..
I was having a throat surgery once and was very very anxious. The doctors were so kind, and helped me through some breathing exercises as the anesthesia kicked in. It was so odd to feel not emotionally calm yet, but to feel my body calming down, but I tried to just ride with it and relax. As someone who's had multiple panic attacks, it was so unfamiliar to feel in the course of seconds mostly out of my ability to control, what it can take a half hour or more to do with a lot of effort on my part normally. My mind was still buzzing, but my limbs started to relax, tension I didn't even know I was holding in my shoulders and everywhere, and it felt like 20 pounds of tension just fell off my chest and actually taking slow deep breaths was so much easier. I think it would've been a lot scarier if they weren't helping me through it and explaining what was going to happen and reassuring me. I'm not sure when exactly I fell asleep, but kudos to the doctors/nurses who helped me feel safe. Also my mom holding my hand :)
I was nervous before getting my wisdom teeth out. I had never been put under before and didn’t know what to expect. My anesthesiologist was so calm and reassuring and stoked my hair as I feel asleep. It was like being in kindergarten again and it instantly calmed me down. Thank your anesthesiologist. They don’t get enough credit. Their the last person you see when you go under and the first you see when you wake up.
I loved my Ketamine anesthesiologist! Nicest lady in the world, and was the best at starting an iv. She did carry a crossword puzzle with her though 😂😂
I had to have a gallbladder removal surgery once and since you are not allowed to eat or drink anything beforehand I was VERY dehydrated. Now when women are dehydrated it can be incredibly difficult to find a vein to start an IV. I had 3 nurses and a head nurse try to get the IV started and I was crying before the anesthesiologist came in an got the IV seated in ONE TRY. I know he doesn't remember me but he made my life so much easier and I was so greatful for him. Anesthesiologists are the true MVPs of the surgical team.
For ppl that don't know, anesthesiologists are also *doctors*
The surgeon is my second favorite.
The anesthesiologist *ALWAYS* gets my vote.
Anesthesiologist are great people. I had to have a major surgery, and they walked me through what was going to happen/how going under was going to feel, things to look for when waking up, etc. When I woke up, one sat and casually talked with me for like 10-15 minutes, which made me feel SO much better.
Wow this is hilarious! One of the funniest skits I’ve ever seen! 😂😂
(Just pretend that we haven’t seen this before. Okay?)
I appreciate you
@@DGlaucomflecken Thank you, Doc. You’ve inspired me a lot in my ongoing med student life and I am starting to love medicine more and more! I appreciate your content a lot too!
Thank you for everything and have a great day~!
Hey what happened? I am subscribed to his other channel. Is it fake? 🥺 Then i'll unscribe from it.
@@nilanjasa007 That other channel you talked about, is an imposter account. That person literally impersonated the real Dr. G for a whole goddamn year and nobody actually found out!
@@PrestonFlanders 😳. That channel even interacted in community posts too! Such a cheater! I am glad real Dr Glaucomflecken found about it!
I remember being put to sleep for some ACL surgery for my Achilles.
Oh boy, it was October 29th and I was MAD I couldn't celebrate my favorite holiday.
Doc leads me in, I lay down, I'm all prepped and nervous. They gave me a "strawberry" flavored gas. World spins and spins, everyone sounds far away, the world gets dark. It was like a long sleep. I didn't dream, just knew I was asleep.
A few seconds later I wake up in recovery. A nurse is checking on me and I ask her where I was. In the softest, sweetest voice she goes "you are in recovery"
I remember feeling so heavy I couldn't move anything. I couldn't feel anything. I was paralyzed except for my eyes. After she said that, I watched her walk away. The black took me again.
I woke up once, needing to pee but couldn't move a muscle even when I tried. Some nurse came in and I had this stuffed bunny (I still have him) with me. I vaguely remember anything beyond that. Just needing to sleep, everything was heavy.
On Oct 31st, I woke up to the itching of pain. I remember sitting up, slowly, petted the rabbit stuffie and call the nurse. After 10 minutes of finally sitting up in what feels like years. I vomit and vomit and vomit. I couldn't sleep because the nausea.
I then go back to bed. Nurse came running in after that. She asked me if I was okay, I just grunted at her and slept another few hours.
I woke up on Nov 1st. I remember opening my eyes to a woman who looked like my mom, but she was a nurse. Shes like "oh you are awake I'm sorry"
I ask her about food. She says I can get you some from the cafeteria. By that point I could've eaten a whole cow raw. She asks me if I would like bacon, eggs, toast. I told her get anything she can find and some water.
She comes back 10 minutes later and lets me chow hound it down. That was the best food I ever tasted. I drank so much water I regretted it later.
I went home that day and spent the next 2 years learning how to walk, run, etc.
So how long were you sleeping for after the surgery?
What
@@amna17. i know right lol
@@mattg4836 from what mom told me, over a day and a half. But it felt like more
@@hotrodmercury3941 was it a bad reaction to the Anesthesia?
The best part is when they react fast enough that even though you woke up halfway through you don’t remember it
There's "awake" and then there's awake. People frequently don't remember anything even when they are initially wide awake and talking.
@@adambailey7932 yeah I woke up twice during a surgery and I don’t remember anything. It’s insane how strong anesthesia is lol
I think that most of the time, you don't remember it because you're on sedatives that block forming of memories. I got a sedative for my gastroscopy and I don't remember a thing even though it took 30 minutes and I was (technically) awake the whole time. It's a side effect but it's good for the patients.
@@adambailey7932yuuuup, its funny how often patients will ask “is it done?” over and over afterwards. Not their fault! Intended, but funny
As someone in med school who wants to specialize in anesthesiology, this is hilarious 😂
Heads-up, if a red-head asks for you to have extra on hand, please indulge them. You don't want them waking up in the middle of things.The red-head curse is real. 😭
As an Anesthesiologist, this is so true! Thanks for the video! (minor flow: You can't talk when you are intubated)
I needed traumatic surgery once. I was a 14-year-old chubby boy with a nasty broken leg and I remember that they gave me a shot into the spine to put me to sleep. I'm not sure if I was resistant to the anesthetic but I woke up in the middle of the surgery and I remember that I just sat there on the table unable to move my legs and watching the procedure they were doing on me. You know, manipulating my flesh with clamps and using their hands to place my fractured bone etc. Oh, man. Everyone in the OR was scared as hell at the moment I sat there staring at them forcing me to lay down and they needed to give me a second painful shot to put me down again. Good times. Life was so much simpler back then.
What to do when something like this happens: from an anesthesiologist I chatted to after getting my wisdom teeth removed.
Basically, if the surgery wasn't too severe, take them into an observation room, prop them up in a comfy chair and go do some paperwork till they wake up.
For more severe surgery take them to another part of the observation room, leave them in the bed and go do some paperwork till they wake up.
Apparently doctors forget to tell the anaesthesiologist when they have like 20 minutes left all the time.
I had back surgery last December and the first shot was amazing. I was wheeled into the OR room and saw like 10 flat screens and asked if we could all game on them....that is all I remember
When I had my emergency C-section, my OB was busy doing the actual C-section. I had a spinal block because I was laboring unmedicated prior to the C-section.The anesthesiologist was the one talking to me. And when it was done and the OB was just finishing closing me up, the anesthesiologist was answering some of my questions (what is this, what is that, etc.).
Every anesthetist I've had work on me or my partner has been super chill so I find it difficult to imagine them annoyed or anxious about anything.
You triggered a memory: about five months ago now, I had heart surgery for my SVT. I had to get it done twice because they didn’t ablate the problem enough the first time. My second time going in the fucking anesthesiologist (who was the same guy) got into an argument with one of the surgeons assistants. For like 5 minutes, I was laying there, practically naked, listening to this man argue that he needs to see and redo something with his notes on me and I asume the right amount of anesthesia. And cleaning certain things? All of this while being prepped to go under. After those 5 minutes I literally just fell asleep and remember it being quiet both going asleep and waking up. I was actually scared the dude might fuck up and kill me.
@@radicallybean that sounds very unchill, so I wouldn't be confident that an unchill doctor is an anaesthesiologist at all.
Good thing you made it, though!
@@radicallybean, I’m sorry you have had such experience. If anything, anesthesiologists should always transmit reassurance to their patients, but let me speak up on behalf of this colleague, for I’ve had my fair share of surgeon induced stress. Usually we get really triggered when we feel that we’re not being given the due time to plan and execute our job in the safest way for the patient. Trust me, it’s way better to have an anesthesiologist that is willing to confront the surgeon if needed than to have one who’s willing to go along with anything he/she proposes.
This is hilarious! That angry look of the anesthesiologist, and the surgeon’s doubtful look when the anesthesiologist asks about an on/off switch are so funny.
When I went in to get a plate put in, my anaesthesiologist was so sweet and great to talk to, she was great to talk with and since I was still awake for a bit longer than she had estimated, did a great job of reassuring me too. Gods bless anaesthesiologists.
I had surgery recently and I came out of anesthesia just swinging 😂 I heard everyone going "whoa whoa!!". Lol anesthetists are unsung heroes
I remember I had got a surgery back when I was 7 to get a picc line in for some bad pneumonia and the anesthesiologist was like “watermelon or cherry”, I said watermelon and we started counting down back from 10.
By the time I hit 8 I was waking up post surgery to my mom at my side an all I could think was *“wait where’s the fruity air? I want more”*
That's me whenever I get dental, lol. I don't really sleep for dental, so it's a great time for brainstorming.
Anesthesiologists will always be some of my favorite docs. The one they had at boston childrens for my thyroid surgery when i was 17 was super nice and very impressed by my lung capacity.
When I had my surgery the anesthesiologist told me "okay sweetie this is gonna sting a little" (I was 16) and a soon as he got the needle out I said, it's okay, even my piercing hurt more the last thing I heard before falling asleep was his chuckle, it really gave me some comfort.
I had surgery last week so this is hilarious to me, thankfully they explained everything before they poked me, don’t really remember much from the first night but I’m recovering well now
I've been put under general anesthesia a couple times and the other way of knocked out in every single time I've loved it. I always woke up so happy and it lasted for a long time. I cry for all the people in the past who had to live without anesthesia pain killers and antibiotics
Anesthesia is some black magic. Couple years ago I was getting ready for surgery and literally 30 seconds after I woke up in another room recovering.
I’m proud of you. And thank you for your dedication to your field.
OMG. The GLARE on Anesthesia's face... that flat-eyed, seething glower. Just such a PERFECT expression! 😂🤣
Actually, anesthesiologist are on pf the most well payed in the doctoral field. They truly are one of the most important part of the operation. Without them monitoring the patients vitals and prescribing more Anastasia as needed, the patient goes painless. Without them, this would probably end up in a court battle.
The last time I had anesthesia, I told the male nurse how lucky he was getting to work with his female coworker (she was gorgeous). My last words to him were, “Wait, is she going to see me naked?” He didn’t answer before I went out, because he was literally crying from laughter. That was rock bottom for me 😭
what a weird thing to say
I can't believe how many people just had a nice lil nap, waking up fine and dandy while i had to slowly rise from the depths of sleep deprivation hell. Imagine finally being able to sleep after staying awake for 3 days only to then be aggressively pulled out of your bed at 2 in the morning. Absolutely in my top 5 worst minutes of my life.
When I had my baby boy I had a C-section it was my second one and even though I knew what to be prepared for I had a lot of Anxiety and while on the table I started to freak out and the Anesthesiologist doctor was so nice and helpful he helped me through the difficult part and stayed with me after because I had so much anxiety and after it was over and I was in bed he came everyday I was there to help me and make sure feeling safe and secure and that isn't even his job the nurses told me on his paperwork he wrote my special patient lol 😆. So to me I will always remember him. I had my husband there but nothing would calm me down I felt like I was going to die thats how real it was getting for me so yeah I will always remember him fondly.
The second time I had to be anesthetized, I woke up like halfway through. I felt like I was suffocating and kept trying to tell the doctors and nurses that I couldn't breathe, that there was an elephant sitting on my chest (I was still halfway sedated).
I started thrashing around to try to convince them to let me breathe and they had to strap me down across the chest. Then I was back out, and woke up again on the way to the recovery room. I had a huge bruise across my chest from struggling against the restraint and on my arm where I had ripped out an IV.
My other surgical experiences were just fine (I've had 6), but I hope to never have a repeat of that. I thought I was going to die.
The anesthesiologist came to see me in the recovery room afterwards to ask how I was feeling and to tell me I scared the dickens out of him by thrashing around suddenly.
I’ve recently needed multiple surgeries and need a few more this year…the comments are both reassuring and also scary like I didn’t realize how risky it was going under 😅
Big shout out to all the anesthesiologists, I’ve had nothing but warm and positive experiences with you all. You guys help make scary situations much easier ♥️
This is exactly why surgery residents (and obgyn) in my hospital had to do 1 month of anesthesia rotation during their training - basically observing or assisting the staff if we’re short - just so they know what anesthesia expects of them and vice versa. Sadly, they just take it as a 1 month free time off, so none of it seems to stick with them by the time they graduate.
I began speaking to my surgeons right as they removed the camera from my vein during an angiogram. Their shocked reaction tells me they weren't expecting me to be lucid at that point.
Lol, you wouldn't happen to be a red-head, would you? 🤣
My anesthesiologist was a kind reassuring woman who kept talking to me during my c sect. She gave me a lot of advice as i was a first time mom and how to care for my wound. Loved her
I'm so terrified of being put under. The last time I was put under I woke up in this room, thinking I was alone, and tripping right out. The nurse was in the room, I didn't see her behind me, so when I sat up she nearly screamed lol.
She was really concerned and asked if I could get up. I got up. She looked even more concerned. Put me in a room. Said the surgeon needs to talk to me. He told me that what happened shouldn't have happened and I'm WAY too coherent and being able to walk isn't something I should be able to do. I was supposed to be out and groggy af for awhile still.
Their concern has left me very concerned. He advised me to never voluntarily go under for any procedures (edit like you know how some dentists offer anaesthesia? Like that) be very careful about elective procedures (like cosmetics), because I might end up old and unable to get surgery. The more I go under, the riskier it gets to put me under. They have a threshold where if the patient doesn't go under at a certain level then they call it off because too much can kill you. Great. But you know what's worse? I was in really bad accidents after that, permanent damage, so I'm on meds.
*Some of my meds cause people to be resistant to anaesthesia* like are you joking?? So now it's worse. Quite a bit worse. So yeah I'm scared of being put under lol. What if I'm old and need surgery and can't get it? Or die on the table? Sucks dude. Knowing this sucks.
I mean technically can’t they just numb the area and leave you awake ?
@@bookofnyx3409 Depends on the surgery. I did not HAVE to be put under for wisdom teeth removal but that is regular protocol and no one had any reason to think I was one of those weird people who metabolize and adjust to substances weirdly fast. Like I take meds every 8 hours instead of every 12 because my body goes through it faster.
The issue is that there are plenty of surgeries that require you to be asleep so it's just a matter of odds whether or not I need one of them. But it's like... Lots of people develop problems with their hearts, knees, hips. Lots of cancer surgery requires it. You never know.
Hey there, open up under light sedation repeatedly, I warned them each and every time.
@@purduephotog I feel like that comment is just a fragment of your full thoughts? You warned who about what each and every time you did what?
What do you mean by "open up under light sedation repeatedly"? Like do you mean have the anaesthesiologist give me less sedation so they can repeatedly wake me up and put me back under during a surgery? Or are you referring to the practice of light anaesthesia?
Because yeah like I said, there are surgeries where you can elect to not be put under, or only get light anaesthesia, but sometimes it's necessary. And when you wake up you're still paralyzed and the other drugs are working so you can't tell anyone you are awake and that just scares the shit out of me.
It's really my only true fear. Like I've nearly died and have chronic pain and so death and pain don't scare me. People have killed themselves after that happening because the experience is so horrifying and traumatic.
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Love how you do teachable moments in all your skits.Amazing work. 😂🥰
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Fun fact: Anesthesia is more dangerous than most of the surgeries that require it
If used in incorrect quantities yes. When used by a professional it is a wonderful tool. A hatchet is dangerous but if used by a lumberjack it is a helpful tool.
@@The_Biologist27 Even when it’s used properly it has hurt or killed people before. Much like hatchets :P
@@soundspire360 then it wasn't used properly
@@The_Biologist27 Or the patient failed to disclose important information. Such as prescription drugs (or illegal drugs)
@@soundspire360 so they were killed by an outside source, not a fault of the drug or administrator but the patient
Man I had local anesthesia for a procedure involving removing a tiny larval human, and another more unwanted tenant. No one told the anesthesiologist that the second one was higher up in my abdomen and when I started feeling the surgery only then did the guy get the memo.
That Dr. had me knocked the heck out in record time, woke up with some stitches and a headache instead of permanent surgical PTSD.
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Thank you for all your work you do. Those mask bruises show howmuch of a hero you truly are.
The first time I ever went under, they had a anesthesiologist help me out. I think she was pretty new to the game because she tortured me for about 15 minutes because she couldn’t get my van. She called in the expert, he came and he got my vein in less than a minute then he told me you were gonna talk about some things… And then I woke up in recovery really needing to pee. I wished for her pillow to be warm for a year… forgive me.
I was under general anaesthesia only once in my life but it was a really pleasant experience. I remember falling asleep and woke up when they were about to wheel me out of the OR. I felt ecstatic and couldn’t stop thanking the surgeons and telling everyone how much I loved them. 😅
Been under twice and it sure feels like a switch. Also feels like time travel since both times I was asleep for what felt like seconds.
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Hey, they keep us breathing & beating while being cut on!!! They are the Kings & Queens of medicine in my opinion 😍🤓🧐
I’ve been in and out of the hospital for years now due to cancer and I can honestly say that anesthesiologists are some of the coolest people.
I had surgery last month and they couldn’t wake me up for two hours after surgery finished! Was the best sleep of my life though