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Always ask what drugs they are going to administer in order to render you unconscious. Many of these drugs are fluorine based (not good). If they insist, and continue to insist, on the word sleep, they are paternalistic and condescending. The word is unconscious. I call it what it is---- a calculated overdose. Do this well before the procedure. Make the anesthesiologist write them down. If the anesthesiologist even hesitates to write these down, then put a stop on the proceedings until he/she treats you with proper respect. They have a vast array of drugs and you can demand the ones that will not leave you with as much nauseation and acute hangover after the procedure---even if they are more expensive than the ones they choose for induction. Research which drugs you are willing to give permission to be used in your body. Anesthesiologist tend to give the cheaper of 2 drugs that would have approximately the same desired effect. I would always refuse pavulon and versed. The hangover from versed is toxic and is completely nonessential. It's also debatable whether to administer antocholinergics routinely as some anesthesiologists do. Although they may be necessary at times, I particularly dislike scopolamine, belladonna , glycopyrrolate and methixene hydrochloride. There are plenty of others that can be used. They might be slightly more expensive, but so what? It's your body that is under consideration and as far as I know, one still owns their own body and can choose what not to put in it. They never just give you 2 drugs. They always give you a combo-platter of drugs with no idea of the effect of synchronicity. I once asked an anesthesiologist what drugs he was going to give my wife for induction. He, in his omnipotent condescension, did not answer my question and instead asked me why I wanted to know. Can you believe it ? I immediately stopped the surgery, complained to his superiors and had everything in writing PDQ. This had happened previously but with a different ending. I'm becoming quite efficient at dealing with laughing, condescending and insulting medical personnel. They think I am crazy for demanding the names of the drugs they are going to use to render my wife unconscious. That's O.K. I think they are the same. Just as they laugh all the way to the bank , I also laugh as I fax the list to my lawyer just in case. This puts us on equal footing. These sites should help: www.usyd.edu.au/su/anaes/VAT/VAT.html --------------------------www.med.virginia.edu/som-cl/anesth/educationintraven.htm Also here's a most interesting book on anesthesia: Primary Anaesthesia, Oxford University Press, 1993, ISBN 0-19-261539-4 de omnibus dubitandum, walker

Posted on May 13, 1999, 4:29 PM

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