Restraints during surgery

I don't work in the US but I can tell you in Australia we do NOT restrain anyone without a restraint order in place (which a doc has to sign) and we certainly don't go tying people down for eye surgery! I've worked in eyes before and if they suspect a patient is going to fidget then they have a GA.

Did the nurse check your nail bed for capillary refill or make sure your circulation wasn't compromised during the restraint?

What happened to you is completely unacceptable and I would probably seek legal advice. If I did anything like that i'd be up before the board, possibly in court.

what is a GA?

I recently had eye surgery under conscious sedation. As I was being prepped in the OR, I was shocked to have a nurse on either side of me wrap my wrists around with gauze and fasten my arms to the operating table.

I must have made some sound because I was told it was so I didn't lift my arms and interfere with the surgery. I was too drowsy to really object but now I am very upset about it.

I have only been in the OR while in nursing school and have only had one surgery before in my life, when I was a child. Is this a common practice? Can a patient object?

I feel very demeaned and violated to have been restrained like that. Plus it was very uncomfortable and made me feel extremely vulnerable. Maybe I am over reacting?