 I raised the issue of whether the doctor would use only a local anaesthetic on Spike during his brain surgery in Out of My Mind and received an email in reply from J.C: “Brain surgeries performed with local anaesthetics are common since the brain has no sensitivity nerves. General anaesthetics always have a risk of patients dying from an overdose of anaesthetics. So generally speaking, if they can keep it local they do it. Also, cases where people suffer some kind of neurological condition (Parkinson’s disease or hallucinations for example) it’s good if you can communicate with patients while performing the operation, it makes it easier to find problem areas.” There you go, though I think I speak for all of us when I say “euw”! |
| Source: | › Thanks to J.C. |
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| Suggested by: | › Jess |
| Added: | › 8th May 2005 |
| Updated: | › 28th February, 2006 |
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December 28th, 2005 at 1:07 am
eeww imagine having someone poking at ur brain, concious or not i don’t really fancy that. then again spikes hard he can take it!