2006-07-04 08:29:02 · 10 answers · asked by cooksie 2 in Health ➔ Alternative Medicine
Snoring is when you are not holding your airway open well enough, but still managing to breathe through it. If you were anaesthetised (without being paralysed) then yes, you would snore. However, as people who are anaesthetised also have a tube fitted straight away, you dont often see it. Watch the anaesthetic being given and there will be a few seconds of snoring while the doc gets the tube ready. If a paralytic is also given, then no, you would not breathe by yourself, so hence no snoring.
It follows, if you see someone who has collapsed, and is snoring, then they are not breathing well enough and you need to open their airway by lifting their chin.
2006-07-04 08:58:54 · answer #1 · answered by Helen 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Nope! I worked in an operating room for a long while. If they are under general anesthesia (meaning they have a tube put down their throat and a machine is breathing for them) then they are first put to sleep using inhaling gases. This makes you very sleepy and you in essence go to sleep. After they are asleep, they are given medication through an IV to paralyze you. Once you are paralyzed, you can no longer breathe or move anything in your body. Therefore it is impossible for you to snore because you aren't able to use the muscles to snore.
On the other hand if you are given conscious sedation (which is for certain tests like colonoscopies or upper GI scopes, or ear tubes for kiddos) you can snore. For this type of anesthesia you aren't actually asleep at all. You don't remember anything, but you are very much awake. You can respond to commands of the doctors and some patients will even have complete conversations but they don't remember anything. Some patients may fall asleep and if they do, they can definitely snore because they are still using their muscles normally.
Hope this info helps.
2006-07-04 08:40:23 · answer #2 · answered by softballer006 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, normally they have a tube going into their mouth and in their lungs, which will secure their airway......which would prevent any snoring....this is called being intubated. Now once the tube is removed and air once again passes the normal way, then it'll be possible for them to snore.
2006-07-04 08:34:25 · answer #3 · answered by cajunrescuemedic 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would have thought it would be impossible to snore under aneasthetic as your airways and normally forced open with tubing while you are unconcious.
They never complained about it when I was last under and I snore horribly and quite often wake myself up doing it :o)
2006-07-04 08:35:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No because there is a tube down your neck and the bits that usually vibrate to make a snore noise cannot.
2006-07-04 08:46:48 · answer #5 · answered by Trish D 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I sure hope not all the extra noise may unnerve the doctors and attending personnel ( I know that snoring is a problem for some people )
2006-07-04 09:06:58 · answer #6 · answered by jazzbeat2@sbcglobal.net 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no because they put in a tube which you sort of breathes for them as being under anaesethic is not the same as being asleep so to speak.
2006-07-04 21:52:25 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
would not think so I must say years ago when i was having treatment on my teeth i was put to sleep on waking my legs were all over the place,i thought i was at a night club dancing. we must get up to some tricks when we are sedated.
2006-07-04 11:54:48 · answer #8 · answered by elizalowlass 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, because you have to breath out of your mouth through the endotracheal tube
2006-07-04 08:33:45 · answer #9 · answered by labradogmommy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, you breath thru the ET tube put down your throat.
2006-07-04 21:14:22 · answer #10 · answered by Jen 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋