“How do doctors wake you up after anesthesia?”
I am a 27 year old female. I want to know how do doctors wake you up after anesthesia?
4 Answers
During general anesthesia you are either kept asleep by gases administered through a breathing tube or medication given through an IV. Those methods are continuously given. To wake up they are stopped and allowed to decrease until you wake up.
The anesthetic agents are discontinued, and your body metabolizes and/or eliminates them, thus their effects wear off and you awaken.
Paul Jacob Fronapfel, M.D. '
Paul Jacob Fronapfel, M.D. '
Dr. J. Arthur Saus
Anesthesiologist
The answer depends on the exact type of anesthesia medication used. Anesthesiologists and Nurse Anesthetists pay close attention to the patient's response to anesthesia, and judge when to discontinue administration of anesthesia, so that the patient emerges from anesthesia at the correct time when there is no longer the need for the patient to be in the state of general anesthesia.
You stop the anesthesia, then the patient wakes up.
