Piercings and tattoos, I mean. Wouldn’t it be easy if we just applied anesthesia? I don’t know if there’s a reason why, but I do wanna know.
*Also, why isn’t anesthesia applied for IUD insertion?
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I don’t think tattoo warrants general anesthesia or sedation. It really doesn’t hurt that much.
I think piercing would probably be more difficult to do after local anesthesia, due to the fact that now you have several mls of local anesthetic where you want to pierce, moving structures around and temporarily deforming structures and the skin. And putting someone under for a single needle pierce is just not going to happen.
As for IUD insertion, I don’t know why someone would do it without anesthesia. It should be patient’s choice. Propofol is really not that expensove, and knocking someone out with it is pretty simple. If you know what you’re doing you can do light sedation without patient going apneic (stopping breathing). We do it all the time for colonoscopies, gastroscopies, small surgical procedures like abscess drainage and stuff. It’s not a problem. But then again I don’t work in the USA.
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