ELI5. If I were under general anaesthesia and then underwent critical trauma (ie. fed to a large animal, severed in some way) would I feel anything or wake up?
(Is there a point where general anaesthesia stops doing stuff when the body goes through enough trauma)
Sorry I realise how mental this question is haha
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Anaesthesia works until your body metabolizes it. The body metabolizes modern general anaesthetics quite quickly. This gives anasthesiologists precise control over depth of a patient’s unconsciousness and the drug’s physiological effects.
So long as anasthetic blood-serum levels remain high enough, the patient will have no memory of anything that occurs.
To the patient, the moment just before they go under and the moment they regain consciousness are temporally adjacent, pinched together as if no time passed between them. From the patient’s perspective, whatever reality occurred while they were under simply doesn’t exist.
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