what is like in the operating room and what anesthesia like ?

Answer 1

It's kind of cold, especially the table you are on. Very clean-looking and sterile, and white. And anesthesia is like they give it to you, and then the doctors will be talking to you for a minute or two, and your last word will drop off and you'll be asleep but you hardly notice you fell asleep. and it feels like the minute you open your eyes you're awake.

Answer 2

The operating room is usually kind of cold, very bright, there is lots of machines sitting around with sterile paper covering them to keep germs off, trays with surgical tools & in the middle is the operating table. Anesthesia isn't anything really, when they give it to you, you don't even know it's doing anything, just all of a sudden your waking up & it seems like it's only been a few seconds passed, but your all finished & your in a recovery room. The nurses will watch you untill your awake more before you can leave the recovery room. It's really not bad having surgery because your asleep the whole time & then your asleep for most of that day afterwards too. Good Luck!!!

Answer 3

Operating rooms are typically cold (not because of germs - because surgeons dress in gowns and stand under hot lights and sweat). They are usually also full of "stuff" - there will be tables with instruments, an electrocautery machine, the anesthesia equipment, and possibly a bunch of other equipment, depending on the surgery you are having. (Laparoscopy or arthroscopy requires extra monitors, lighting equipment, and other machines).

There are also a lot of people - your surgeon, anesthesiologist, a scrub nurse/tech and another nurse at a minimum. There may also be surgical assistants, residents, medical students, xray technicians, or other ancillary personnel. It can get crowded.

From the patient's perspective, anesthesia is like time stopping in the OR, and restarting in the recovery room (for general anesthesia). For me, it's a lot of work, because I have to spend all day keeping people alive. If you have general anesthesia, you'll get an injection in your i.v. and drift off to sleep in a matter of seconds. When you wake up, it's all over. Like magic! (I have the coolest job!)

It's different if you choose a spinal anesthetic. Then you can choose to be awake or sedated, but you'll be pain-free regardless.

Answer 4

The funny thing about anesthesia is, you remember going under and waking up right away, with no apparent passage of time. One moment you have just been wheeled into the Operating Room, and the next moment you are waking up in the Recovery Room, the surgery completed.

Answer 5

Operating rooms are usually cold, or at least very cool. But when the anesthesia kicks in you won't even feel a chill. You just go to sleep immediately. When you wake up in the recovery room you'll be wrapped up in blankets all warm and cozy. Nothing to it.

Answer 6

The operating room is usually pretty chilly and bright. You'll be made comfortable. The anesthesia is great... best sleep I've ever had. One moment you're waiting to fall asleep and the next moment you're waking up and wondering how long you've been out.

Answer 7

The operating room can be kin of scary. It is very cool in there and every thing is covered up with blue towels. Anesthesia is probably the best thing because you go to sleep and don't see any more of it.

Answer 8

Well, the opertating room is not that bad, expect when you enter, you see lots of lights, doctors and those knifes things. if its ur first time in there, its pretty scary! I was scared the first time,(only been 2 times) second, not that scary.
aneshtesia makes u sleep, its kinda weird. when they put it on you u start dozzing off, you cant resist falling asleep,you can see the doctors and everything around u blurry, than suddenly u fall asleep. the next thing u do is wake up, but not in the operation room, just in an original hospital room, family, freinds, and some other people visit u.
ohhh yeah! the hospital goodd times, good times.
not really!

Answer 9

When you finally do get to the operating room, they've usually given you some nice happy stuff all ready, so the impressions I got were rather vague.

It was chilly, the walls were green, there were lots of shiny things, the towels were blue, it was very bright, there were many machines beeping and binging and then someone popped a plastic mask over my face and said "Breathe deep".

Then I woke up all warm and cozy with lots of cords and tubes attached to IVs.

Answer 10

The operating room is surprisingly not scary at all. You are feeling relaxed from your medicines. You just move over from your bed to the operating table. The anesthesiologist introduces himself/herself put a mask on you and you drift off to sleep and what seems like 2 seconds later you wake up, and its all over. Occasionally you might be sick to your stomach if you were "out" for a long time.