When you get an operation an you get the anistic to put you a sleep how does the body breath do they stick a tube down your throat or what happens??
2007-11-21 02:57:57 · 7 answers · asked by Irish816 3 in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Other - General Health Care
Hi
We will do the breathing for you.
When you have a general anaesthetic, as soon as you loose consiousness we inject you with a drug called suxamethonium and that stops you breathing.
We then 'intubate' you where a tube is inserted into your air way and a cuff is inflated to hold it in place.
The pipe is then connected to a ventilator where the breathing is done for you.
What we ventilate you with depends on the anaesthetic, but it is usually a nitrous oxide and oxygen mix for minor operations and isoflurane added for more major operations.
In some operations, anaesthesia is maintained with IV drugs via a drip, usually propofol or ketamine, and you are ventilated with 96% O2 balance CO2.
2007-11-21 03:15:55 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
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2016-04-05 01:48:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on the anesthesia they use. When you wake up and your throat is sore, you will know they had a breathing tube down your throat. Most people dont realize they intubate for surgery. If they didnt do it, you would not recieve adequate oxygenation.
Intubation is a tube in your mouth that goes to your trachea and gives you breaths during surgery.
I work on a surgical floor and sometimes pts dont come back to us because for whatever reason, they cannot extubate them because they dont breath well enough on their own yet.
They go to surgical ICU.
2007-11-21 03:12:12 · answer #3 · answered by happydawg 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It depends on what kind of operation you are having and what kind of anesthesia that they use....
Most of the time, they do intubate you...(meaning, they put a breathing tube down your throat).
They will also hook you up to a cardiac monitor and a pulse ox so that they can measure and track your BP, pulse, respirations, and the amount of oxygen your body has in its extremeties...legs, and arms...
2007-11-21 03:41:55 · answer #4 · answered by Doodlebug 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not sure because I;ve been asleep throughout, but from watching such programmes on the television it looks as if they put a tube down to keep your airway open.
2007-11-21 03:02:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They stick a tube down your windpipe and pump air in and out of your lungs.
2007-11-21 03:03:00 · answer #6 · answered by grayure 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They put you onto a ventilator.
2007-11-21 09:27:27 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋