How does it feel to be operated on? - Part I; by Dr. Maizo

drmaizo (70)in #health • 6 years ago

Hi my dear Steemians, this post is an adaptation and improvement in english [ENG] from: Source; The first part about a surgeon's view of what it is like to feel in a patient's shoes when entering an operating room.

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One of the questions you tend to hear most often as a doctor from patients who have already had some kind of emergency surgery is how did you feel about being operated on, how does it feel to enter an operating room? Do you see the tunnel light when they put you to sleep? Anyway, so many unknowns that you don't have room for them in your mind.

As a surgeon, the large number of patients we routinely see day after day allows us to be observers of so many anecdotes that it is always good to share them. But, and here comes the question... How does it all happen?

First of all and depending on the type of surgery (we have emergency surgeries and scheduled surgeries) the preparation is different.

In emergency surgery, there is basically no time to prepare anything. Many times the patient may arrive unconscious as if in a state of shock, so the haste to take vital signs and control them with all kinds of drugs is made at the same time as all the health personnel demonstrate their skills in the operating room. In this type of surgery, the aim is to preserve the life of the patient, whatever the cost.

The Elective Surgery

As for a scheduled surgery or also called elective surgery, everything is completely different, at least in my area of traumatology if it is to operate on a patient with a wrist fracture of something already time (for example) the steps are as follows.

You must perform a series of steps to check that everything is in order:

step by step....

You should have a series of blood tests to evaluate that everything is in order, just to mention a few such as hematology, glycemia, hiv and vdrl, pt-ptt and some others depends on whether you suffer from any disease.
Most of the time you should be seen by a cardiologist and have an electrocardiogram to evaluate the function of your heart, it is important at bedtime to rule out arrhythmias.
If you suffer from a particular illness, be it an internist, a pulmonologist, an endocrinologist, a neurologist, etc., you should be evaluated by the doctors who know about your case.
You should be seen first by your anesthesiologist to be asked everything he needs to know before doing the surgery.
You must have the necessary studies for your surgeon, X-rays, CT scans, MRIs, all at hand.
Patience, lots of patience

So... what happens next?

After this prescription of requirements that seem like an eternity, you are admitted to the Hospital or Clinic where you are going to operate so that the nursing team can assist you to place a venous line where they can place the medications, after this you must change and put on a special synthetic material gown before finally being transferred to the ward.

Once you walk into that frightening, practically naked cold, you see everyone talking about you in a scientific and incomprehensible way, until you finally hear a voice saying: Pass the patient on!

What follows I will tell you in a second part full of many anecdotes. I'll leave you some pictures from the O.R. (operating room) for now.

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Thank you, and you are loved. Sincerely: Dr. Leopoldo Maizo. @drmaizo.

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