I’ve heard that if someone undergoes surgery and needs to be put under with general anesthesia, that the doctor will put a tube down your lungs to make sure you get enough oxygen.
So does this mean a person under general anesthesia is incapable of breathing on their own, or is it done as a safety measure?
Final question:
How do doctors know when to take the tube out before a patient wakes up? I’ve never been put under before, but one of my fear has always been to wake up with a metal tube down my throat and get that Matrix Neo experience when he first wakes up in the pod and pulls a giant tube from his throat.
Does this ever happen? How is it prevented?
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Just my two cents, weirdest experience for me personally was “waking up” mid sentence with a small paper cup of water in my hand talking to the PACU nurse after surgery under general anesthesia. It’s like my consciousness just suddenly came online even though I had been awake, talking to the nurse and drinking water all while essentially “unconscious”. It was an extremely unsettling sensation. I kinda think waking up while they were extubating me would have been less of a weird sensation than “waking up” after you were already awake.
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