I'm a board certified anesthesiologist and current PGY-5 pediatric anesthesiology fellow in New York City. On my channel, I post videos about anesthesiology and the process of becoming an anesthesiologist.
* Not a substitute for medical advice * Opinions are my own.
I went through a hemorrhoid surgery last year, but the anesthesiologist did not tell me what he was injecting me with. I felt dizzy 5 seconds after the injection and passed out. Woke up in the hospital room about an hour and a half later. It was like that time period never happened. I had short term amnesia for a couple of hours later but that was it.
And I was annoyed of having to pay like 50 or 100€ for the board exam and annoyed that it‘s 50 kms away 😀 (in Germany) and only 6 months before you can take the test again
I generally like and get knowledge from your videos, but anybody comes near me with the laryngoscope while I am awake and alert is going to find themselves in a Jerry Springer stage like situation
Midazolam works fast. We had a nasal spray to use as a emergency drug for big seizures in our baby girl. I didn’t like it much. She was out long. And I wasn’t comfortable with carrying around a nasal spray in my purse. Always aware of the danger that a kid would take it and think it was just a normal cold nasal spray.
Fascinating. Intubation is so damn cool. It was also one of the most painful and scary things I’ve ever felt. I was intubated while unconscious from a suicide attempt. However, I woke up during the procedure bc I thought I was being strangled to death. I tried to punch the respiratory therapist in fight or flight mode. When I woke up days later on the ventilator, I felt like I couldn’t breathe and was trying to scream so bad. Them pulling it back out hurt like a bitch
I was awake but unable to move as a little girl in the 70s. I could hear the surgeon asking for a tool. But was unable to do anything to alert them. Scary. But was asleep before the tool was handed to him. Thank you. It does seem like I can remember after surgery when the extubate. I don't remember the anesthesiologist speaking, although she did. I remember absolute terror as the tube was pulled out. No logic. Too loopy.
You're amazing. I wish you were in the operating room when I needed emergency surgery. You have a wonderful personality and will really make a difference in the patient's lives you touch. God Bless
Alchol and cocaine are so demonized that all people want is opiods and fetanol for there pain and think it's totally legal and cool and alchol and Cocaine are not good for pain! Those opiods and fetanol are more illegal than alchol and cocaine ,especially on the street! Doctors can't give those opiods out at hospital unless you have been cut wide open for surgeries! NO THANK YOU!!! I DONT HAVE TO GET CUT UP FOR BEER AND FREE BASING!!!!!! Loooool
The only thing I regret about doing drugs from my past was when I had my wisdom teeth removed and they gave me fetanol and opiods!!!!!! I wish I could take it back, but I never regret drinking beer, free basing ,or hooking up with older woman who free base!!!!
Anybody who takes away our self medicating drugs like coffee, cigarettes, diet cafinated sodas, alchol, and cocainia to replace it with fetanal and opiods for permanent damage surgeries is going to get the smack down!!!!!!! Loooool
I recently had four bypass surgeries in one day I was rushed into the hospital after suffering a massive heart attack all the arteries in my heart we’re blocked they spent seven hours doing the surgery and they but me in a coma for two days to help my heart recover I owe my heart surgeon my life I was told later on that I shouldn’t have lived because of the blockage
And how do you make it clear that on no uncertain terms that you DO NOT WANT and DO NOT CONSENT to the use of versed? Way too often people aren't told about the amnesia, nor what they are being given. Do I just need to tell you that I'm allergic? I don't care how hard it makes your job, I'd rather be rolling into an operating theatre in a blackout panic attack than be given Versed. No. Chemical. Restraints.
@@MaxFeinsteinMD And even then they sometimes slip it to you, or administer it before you can even ask what it is. Or refuse to tell you, "it'll help you relax", and administer anyway. That's my concern.
Oh that's beautiful! I can only get propofol, midazolam, and fentanyl ampoules. Morphine too but that's almost as useless as the 100mcg fentanyl ampoules. Wish could get Ketamine! Street Ketamine of course but the ampoules only crop up every so often. I might not be able to mix a martini but i love cocktails! Lol. Check out the onions, all this stuff minus the Ketamine is available in the 'places they shouldn't be' (according to you). Functional addicts here, it just helps the anxiety so much in conjure with my ADHD meds. For me its a life-saving crutch access to these things. Prohibition hasn't made anything better. We just have people taking fentanyl or Benzimidazoles when they'd otherwise be happy on diamorphine. That's what prohibition has got you. And now some 16 year old buying valium that's laced with fent or zenes has to die. Yeah, nice one prohibition! So, stick to pharma-grade, blister pack and send a sample to the lab! Wedinos offers free and anonymous testing, great great harm reduction. Keep things sterile and single use etc etc.
After going into status epilepticus I was given 5mg of midazolam intra buccaly. Don't remember anything but apparently stopped seizing within five minutes.
Works great if you’re someone it actually works on. I’m 1/80 of those you can give a whole vial of and it doesn’t work. Took waking up during two procedures for them to figure out the genetics. They have to use prophophyl to “potentiate” it.
Max, I wish you were my anesthesiologist when I have my partial robotic nephrectomy! They warned me I'd have a 2nd IV in surgery but I ended up with a really big bump and a bad bruise!
I’m having surgery day after tomorrow, hope they do this after I’m out. I’ve always had it this way during my past surgeries! Last one was November 2019.
Never realized this always thought you were just asleep almost immediately when the mask was placed on my boyfriend had surgery and was just told to think of a nice happy place like a beach etc was a sleep before he new it was in the recovery room didn’t thrash around or didn’t have a suffocating feeling the experience is different for everyone I guess but most people would just be out before they would be in much discomfort .
I was put under GA for my laparoscopic cholecystectomy.. I'm also a surgeon . I dont know what happened. But i didnt expected that this would happen to me I think i was awake.. When i felt being suffocated and unable to breath and believed i was dead that too happened three times in same operation . It felt i died three times ... Nobody Was there to save me.. i was so helpless.. when i woke up..i couldnt breath properly ... I couldnt sleep for three days.. sleeping made me feel as if i was being buried alive. I choked . I couldnt breath.. nobody believed me what i said.. Then i researched and found about anaesthesia awareness. Now. I'm working on myself.. trying to forget this as a nightmare. I still have panic attacks...sometimes couldnt sleep... But i'm working on it . .trying to keep myself calm.... May be its easier for me to cope with this PTSD as im a doctor too.. But sometimes .... It doesnt work... Im scared.. im just scared of ceasing to exist...and nobody believes me that this has happened to me ... Aftermaths of anaesthesia awareness is not good for mental health
I can see this as a possible treatment option for paramedics with patients in moderate respiratory distress one of these days . It can be valuable in patients with low oxygen saturation levels .
I’ve had this happen because I have a difficult airway due to the way I was born. I already hate the part where I go into the OR and wait to be hooked up before going under, it was even worse when you add in the awake intubation.
