[crna2bee]

Be prepared for a movies coming out starring Jessica Alba called "Awake". Apparently it is a full length movie about a man experiencing awareness while have heart surgery. As if we don't have enough with shows like Gray's Anatomy, E.R. etc...Now Hollywood will be advertising every surgical patients worst fear via movie trailers on the 6:00 news.

http://movies.about.com/od/christens...wake090105.htm

[WVUturtle514]

Producer Joana Vicente told Variety that "Awake" "will do to surgery what 'Jaws' did to swimming in the ocean." Filming is expected to begin next month.

And they are actually proud of this? I am appalled. Well, with everything else the ASA gets its panties all bunched up over, surely this will be next on their list.....but this time, rightly so. I am just kind of shocked right now.....

[nialloh]

Like people need more to fear before surgery.

[EricTAMUCC-BSN]

Hollywood is a joke, that group of psychotic attention seekers has stereotyped me and my coworkers.

[SFCardiacRN]

I worked at a hospital where a couple of patients claimed to be aware during surgery. One was even able to repeat a joke told during the surgery. It turned out that an OR tech was switching pre-filled fentanyl syringes with sterile saline and only the muscle relaxant was being used! A couple of huge lawsuits ended the practice of pharmacy filled syringes in anesthesia "tackle boxes".

[Nitecap]

Originally Posted by SFCardiacRN

I worked at a hospital where a couple of patients claimed to be aware during surgery. One was even able to repeat a joke told during the surgery. It turned out that an OR tech was switching pre-filled fentanyl syringes with sterile saline and only the muscle relaxant was being used! A couple of huge lawsuits ended the practice of pharmacy filled syringes in anesthesia "tackle boxes".

What were they doing an all opiod case?

[rn29306]

Originally Posted by SFCardiacRN

I worked at a hospital where a couple of patients claimed to be aware during surgery. One was even able to repeat a joke told during the surgery. It turned out that an OR tech was switching pre-filled fentanyl syringes with sterile saline and only the muscle relaxant was being used! A couple of huge lawsuits ended the practice of pharmacy filled syringes in anesthesia "tackle boxes".

Not to knock this story or you personally, but some details seem a little off like Nitecap stated. Only a moron in this day and age of anesthetic development would choose a narcotic and paralytic technique on a regular basis for general cases. Maybe on a sick heart once and a while or in an absolute trauma, but unlikely enough to have 'several instances'. An experienced practitioner should immediately see that no fentanyl being administered by seeing ANS upheaval on intubation, cut time, or shortly thereafter.
Not cool in any book but this should have been detected before a patient woke up stating recall. I guess it may be possible given a patient on a healthy dose of beta blockers, but a bad situation nonetheless.

[SFCardiacRN]

This was 30 years ago. It was student CRNA's giving the anesthetic. No one believed the patients until a doctors wife was able to recall intra-op jokes being made (not to mention extreme pain). Shortly after that, the tech got caught stealing the narcotics. http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/...aking-up_x.htm This link shows it is still a potential problem (though rare).

[rn29306]

Originally Posted by SFCardiacRN

This was 30 years ago. It was student CRNA's giving the anesthetic. No one believed the patients until a doctors wife was able to recall intra-op jokes being made (not to mention extreme pain). Shortly after that, the tech got caught stealing the narcotics. http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/...aking-up_x.htm This link shows it is still a potential problem (though rare).

Not cool at all.

[LanaBanana]

I saw a show on discovery health one time about patients who were awake but paralyzed during surgery. One of the women is now suffering from PTSD and barely can leave her house. Most of the patients on the show were in Europe. For patients who have experienced this in the past, there was a technique shown on the show that allows their whole body to receive the paralytic except one arm. Then periodically during the surgery, they would say "if you can hear us, wiggle your right hand." If they wiggled their hand, they would be given additional medication.
I can't imagine going through this!