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Use Brain Computer Interface to detect people becoming conscious during anesthesia.
1) Patient trains "stop" signal prior to surgery
2) If patient wakes up, they consciously trigger the "stop" signal
3) Doctor stops cutting and calls anesthesiologist to adjust
Bispectral Index
https://en.wikipedi...ki/Bispectral_index
Similar idea but not under conscious control of patient. It reads brain waves and computes (with proprietary algorithm) a number between 0 for dead and 100 for fully awake. [farble, May 24 2017]
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Even if it doesn't actually work, It might help some
patients deal with their fears of waking up fully
under the knife. |
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Why would medics want this ? They don't care ... |
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The subconscious mind detects lots of stuff that escapes
notice by the conscious mind. Anesthesia generally knocks
out the conscious mind, but the subconscious mind often
still knows what is going on around it --and often puts that
data into dreams and fears. And yet you can't
arbitrarily knock out the subconscious mind, because it does
things like cause heartbeats and breathing. Therefore this
Idea appears to be saying everyone should be hooked up to
a heart/lung machine before anesthesia is applied.... |
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There is a theory, which I would like to promote amongst people of a nervous disposition who are scheduled for surgery, that the anaesthetic does not dull your perception of pain, but simply blocks the laying down of memories so that, when you awake, you have no recollection of the unspeakable agony you endured during the operation. |
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I woke up three or four times during an endoscopic procedure and kept trying to push the tube over to one side to make the pain stop. Messed up my gag-reflex to this day.
Big (+) from me. |
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There is a theory, which I would like to promote among
halfbakers, that Maxwell is really Dr. Karl Gebhardt in
hiding. |
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There is already a device hooked up which is the heart monitor. Generally if a person wakes up to find himself paralyzed and being cut on, the heart rate goes up a lot. When the anaesthesiologist notices this, medicines are given until the heart rate subsides. |
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//Messed up my gag-reflex to this day.// That must explain why you swallow so many things. Also, it must have been a hell of a long endoscope to reach all the way to your throat. |
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"Upper endoscopy is a procedure that enables the examiner (usually a gastroenterologist) to examine the esophagus (swallowing tube), stomach, and duodenum (first portion of small bowel) using a thin, flexible tube called the upper endoscope through which the lining of the esophagus, stomach, and duodenum can be viewed using a TV monitor." |
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I woke at least three times during the procedure and again on being wheeled out of the room. I felt the whole thing, and I puke almost every morning when my toothbrush gets anywhere near the back of my tongue now.
For the first few years afterward I thought it might go away. |
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It's not a really funny way to start most days but I suppose I can see the humor in it. |
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Give me a few more years. If I can figure out how to heal myself and if my stomach acid hasn't eaten out my esophagus by then we can chuckle about it together over a pint. |
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