intubating question

okay. thank you! :)

 Sorry to hijack, but I've been wondering how you are doing Evelyne?

Its not the surgeon usually who decides that but the anaestheiologist - at least it was in my case - I didn't need to be tubed while awake but it was something that was discussed at my PATTS appt. She wanted to know about my dental work as that is a factor in things as well as your physiology.

I was intubated while awake and quite frankly, it was awful.

I had my surgery in a small private hospital in Montreal.  The anesthesiologist came to see me and said that because it wasn't a large hospital with all of the fancy equipment that it was safer for him to intubate me while I was awake.  I was pretty freaked out when he told me, but he said that I would inhale something to freeze my throat, and I would be given something to help me relax and that I would be very cooperative.  He would tell me what to do, I would do it and I wouldn't remember a thing.

He was right.  I breathed deeply (through my mouth) some bad tasting stuff and after that I don't remember anything until I woke up in the recovery room.

Tell your friend not to worry.  I'm sure she will be fine.

Nancy