Short video explaining that intraoperative awareness (waking up during surgery) is extremely unlikely for elective procedures. The anesthesiology team (CRNA or anesthesiologist) remains with and continuously monitors the patient from entry to recovery, using multiple safety checkpoints to detect lightening anesthesia before awareness could occur.
Like, they're going to wake up, they're not going to wake up during surgery. Just, you know, because this question comes up quite a bit, I'm just going to attack it up front. Once you are, once you roll back to the operating room with one of our either CRNAs or anesthesiologist, our anesthesia provider is with you from the second that you enter the room until the second that you wake up in the recovery room, we are by your side, we're monitoring you beat to beat, breath to breath. We do not leave and you are fully monitored the entire time. It's not you. I always, some patients ask, you know, well, when I go into the room and you put me to sleep, like, do you go out and you grab coffee? Like, what do you do? I was like, oh, man, I wish, I wish it was like that. It is. It is not like that. We are there the entire time. Like, they're going to wake up. They are not going to wake up during surgery. No wake ups during surgery. No wake ups during surgery. That doesn't happen. And unfortunately, you know, media, movies, everybody has glamorized this idea of awareness and I'm going to wake up during surgery. Awareness under anesthesia. That's what we call it in anesthesia and in, in healthcare, that's the, the actual term for it is awareness under anesthesia. So for people coming for elective surgery, that is not going to happen. I want, I want to make you, you know, you guys need to rest assured you are not that patient. You're. There are about 20 different stop checkpoints that would happen or notify us as the anesthesia provider that you were, that your anesthetic was starting to get light before that would ever, ever, ever take place. So my, my answer to that is, typically, you are in very good hands. This is not going to happen. I understand that fear and that unknown, but that is very known to us. I can tell immediately what's going on while you're actually asleep.
