I’m not saying they don’t deserve it, obviously I know they have our lives between their hands. To my knowledge, they base their calculations around our weights and heights. What else makes it so difficult?
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Okay, so to put this simply anaesthesiologists poison you until you’re almost dead. A little too much… and you die. Too little and you wake up screaming and thrashing around, and the doctor operating on you cuts the wrong thing… and you die. If after the operation they don’t figure out how fast you will regain consciousness then you wake up in pain, thrash around, pull stitches, and … you might die.
Surgical teams work as a team, so singling out one person in the room as the most important person is tricky, but if I had to do it I would say that the anaesthesiologist is often the most important person in the room. If they do their job wrong then … you die.
And there are a ton of variables. How much fat is the person carrying? Because fat affects a lot of things. How fast or slow is the person’s metabolism? The anaesthesiologist often has no way to know these things beforehand, and they’re making small adjustments throughout the operation, making sure to keep you on that tightrope at exactly the right point to keep you asleep, but not so much that you die.
It’s a difficult job that involves a lot of unknowns that can only be determined through monitoring the patient carefully throughout the operation. And one mistake and … you die.
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