Serious reminder: During the 3 types of operations, the patient may need to be naked, don't worry too much
Recently, the topic " How many people die after waking up from general anesthesia surgery " has become a hot search, bringing many happy comments. Among them, the experience shared by a netizen caused many discussions.
The netizen said that anesthesia is not a social death. The social death is that he cannot wear pants during the operation, and his clothes must be put on his body, which is equivalent to not wearing it. The whole person is like a salted fish "at the mercy of others".
In fact, it is not a "special hobby" of the hospital that a patient cannot wear clothes during anesthesia, but for the sake of safety, because unexpected changes will occur in the body during anesthesia. Also, not all surgeries require stripping.
1. Why can't the patient wear clothes during general anesthesia?
General anesthesia refers to the suppression of the patient's nervous system by drugs or other medical means, showing reversible loss of consciousness, muscle relaxation, pain loss and reflex inhibition , creating favorable conditions for clinical operations.
Among the anesthetics, there is a drug called " muscle relaxant ", which can make the muscles of the patient's whole body be forced to "stop working" and be in a state of relaxation and unresponsiveness, including those involved in breathing, holding urine, and holding back feces. Because of this muscle, the patient cannot breathe and excrete spontaneously, and may experience urinary incontinence .
To sum up, the main reasons why you cannot wear clothes during general anesthesia surgery are as follows:
1. Create a sterile environment
The operation must be performed in a sterile environment, and the surgical site needs to be fully exposed and disinfected. If the patient wears clothes, it will not only fail to ensure sterility, but also affect the disinfection and increase the risk of infection.
2. Connect the ECG monitor
Both general anesthesia and surgery have certain safety risks, so an ECG monitor must be connected to the patient to understand the patient's vital signs in real time and ensure life safety. These instruments need to be connected to the chest, there are many lines, and it is very inconvenient to wear clothes.
3. Ensure health and safety
During the operation, the patient may experience bleeding, incontinence, etc. In order to timely rescue, puncture and intubate, catheterize, stop bleeding and clean up defecation , it is best for patients to take off their clothes in advance. In addition, if patients and their families see blood-stained clothes after surgery, there may be a psychological burden.
2. Not all surgeries require nudity
In fact, whether to strip naked for surgery needs to be judged according to the site, scope and complexity of the surgery. Surgery that requires complete removal of clothing generally includes:
· Major surgery
For example, large-scale operations such as tumors, thyroid, heart, and abdominal cavity require the removal of severely damaged or necrotic tissues or organs, which can affect the whole body and are more dangerous. Doctors need to pay attention to the changes of various parts and organs in real time during the operation to ensure the safety of patients' lives.
· Complicated surgery
For example, knee replacement surgery will increase the complexity and risk of surgery due to the complex structure and function of bones, especially in the case of broken bones or severe deformity of bone and joints. If the patient is wearing clothing, it may affect the doctor's vision and related operations.
· Surgery on important parts
For example, operations such as gastrointestinal, gynecological and urological operations involve important organs of the human body and involve many parts, and usually cannot wear clothes.
But not all surgeries require complete nudity, and some require only partial removal of clothing. For example , for some minor operations on the upper body , patients only need to take off their shirts; for operations on the ends of the lower limbs such as ankle joints and toes, generally only need to take off their pants.
3. What about the privacy of patients?
As for the privacy issues during the operation, there is no need to worry too much.
Both male and female patients can only wear hospital gowns during the operation, and during the operation, the patient's body will be covered with a layer of cloth, only the parts that need to be operated and observed during the operation are exposed, and other private parts are generally not will be seen.
If it is a general anesthesia operation, the patient's face, mouth and nose will be covered and protected, and the degree of "social death" will be a little less.
What are the side effects of anesthesia?
In the surgical ward of the hospital, there is a saying that "surgery has a size, anesthesia is no small matter", which means: whether it is a large anesthesia (general anesthesia) or a small anesthesia (local anesthesia, semi-anesthesia), the risks are regardless of size. Can't tolerate the slightest sloppiness.
While anesthesia can solve the problem of pain, it can also cause injury and even death. For example, if there is no equipment to support breathing after anesthesia, the patient may not be able to gasp for breath and die; in the absence of muscle relaxants, excessive use of sedative drugs to achieve muscle relaxation effects may lead to brain damage.
Therefore, professional anesthesiologists and monitoring equipment are essential when performing anesthesia surgery.
In addition, some patients said that they became stupid, stupid, and often dizzy after anesthesia. What happened? Can anesthesia cause nerve damage?
In fact, the medical community has been studying this issue . Today's anesthetics are short-acting. A single, short-term general anesthesia will be quickly metabolized by the human body, and it has little effect on the brain, so there is no need to worry too much. But for children 3 years and younger , multiple or prolonged anesthesia may have adverse effects.
Whether or not anesthesia is needed and what kind of anesthesia is needed will be assessed by the doctor according to the patient's situation, so that the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.
References:
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