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The words that we never want to hear" "I'm sorry, Your love has irreversible brain damage ..."", says the doctor in the crowded waiting room. You blurt out" "But how did this happen?" "You ask with baited breath to learn the source of terrible anxiety. The doctor will tell you, in fact, is very pleased to say ... but the doctor knows that if he tells you the reason why this happened, you will likely to be a direct action against the hospital, the anesthesiologist, and all who care for your loved ones.

If you look at before an impending surgery, the anesthesiologist is required to speak before the surgery to determine whether you are a good candidate for, say, general anesthesia, where you sleep. Anesthesiologists should be to discuss with you the risks associated with anesthesia. In any case where anesthesia, there is always the possibility of death. However, if every anesthetist said, each patient that they could die from the anesthesia in the "routine" surgery, no one would ever surgery.

Why is this so important? There are some patients who prefer not to take a risk, however remote, that something catastrophic could happen during a "simple routine" surgical procedure. Take for example a case I handled a few years ago. It was a woman who had a colonoscopy in a doctors office. She was referred to the medical instructions to prepare for the procedure to the letter. No food after midnight, nothing to drink. It would be so horrible, disgusting drink, the effect that you have to go to the bathroom 20-times in a row, is a total clean.

When she arrived for her colonoscopy, she never expected what eventually happened. It is interesting that the doctor carrying out the procedure had the good sense, an anesthesiologist in the room. The anesthesiologist gave her a IV and gave her medicine to her sleepy. Then the procedure starts. There were some difficulties at the tube through the intestine and the next moment, the patient had vomiting. Anesthesiologists do not realize what had happened, and not as a cessation of the procedure recommended the doctor to do the next colonoscopy, the patient was in order. On the contrary. The patient had inhaled the vomit into their lungs. Anesthesiologists never suctioned the vomit past their windpipe. In fact, she had inhaled vomit so much that in a very short time, the acidic stomach contents began to eat away at the lungs of the patient. Soon she could not breathe easily and was very worked respiration. Only if the colonoscopy the doctor realizes he does not do the procedure he has to stop what he is doing.

Anesthesiologists still does not recognize the significance of what had happened. The patients' oxygen level was falling rapidly. There was a strong suggestion that the anesthetist was not even around the patient, how to go into the next case, the anesthesia for the next patient. After nearly an hour worked in the recovery room breathing, and a decreasing oxygen content in blood, finally has someone call an ambulance. The patient developed severe pneumonia from the foreign matter (vomiting) in the lungs. Two days later, she died directly as a result of anesthesia errors, and the doctors not to make the procedure as a significant complication.

The sad part of history is that this woman lived for many years were these errors not occurred. The patient has suffered brain damage and severe damage to the lungs by an anesthesiologist, which can not be identified, common complications and a condition for the doctors called aspiration pneumonia, and hypoxia-also known as a decreased amount of oxygen in the lungs, blood and brain.

Another case I dealt with, recently a young man who had hernia surgery. It was a "same day" and the young man was, he is after the anesthetic had worn off. Unfortunately for this young man, he was too much anesthesia. Instead of it from the recovery room after an hour he was still three hours later. Since it is at 7.00 clock and the outpatient center was already closed, the doctor decided that the patient should be in the hospital overnight just for observation. In this way it can be observed, and if the bears from anesthesia, he will be able to go home in the morning. Not a bad thought.

But the patient was so groggy, he did not even know he was in the hospital. He became a regular floor, and there was no electronic monitoring of his oxygen, his cardiac status, or even his breathing. It was an unmonitored medical floor where the nurses came every three or four hours just to check for you and possibly your vital signs, if you were lucky.

During the night, the night nurse saw the young man fell asleep and decided not to awaken him to his vitality. That was a bad decision. In the morning, when the next shift came on duty, the nurse was to check on the young man and found him totally blue, not breathing, and cardiac arrest. An emergency "code blue" was called and doctors came racing from around the hospital to try to move back into the young people. The doctors were ultimately successful and were able to his heart again. It has a fan, because he does not breathe for themselves. Tests showed that this young man was without oxygen for hours. His body was transferred stunned by the hernia surgery the evening before, and although drugs are available to the effects of the anesthesia, these patients never such drugs.

This young man lived on a respirator, suffered all kinds of complications from a respirator and suffered irreversible brain damage, including pneumonia, infection, kidney failure and an early and terrible death. "" But he went into the hospital for routine hernia surgery! ' "Said his father. What does this even worse was that for a few days after this disaster, the man was in pain. If it pinches his skin, he moaned. When she touched his eye, he withdrew. There were signs of a degree of conscious pain and suffering. This young man's death was avoidable.

Anesthesia mistakes are tragic and unforgiving. When tragedy strikes, try to answer this question: "Why does this happen?" "

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