Hollywood movie called "awake"

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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/christensenhayden/a/awake090105.htm

The ASA is aware and has offered to assist the producers in potraying an accurate case ect and make it realistic. Hopefully the ASA doesnt screw us and make the provider a CRNA instead of a Anesthesiologist.

Nope, that would require the portrayal of a "god forbid" solo CRNA or that the MDA in the "ACT" wasn't "properly supervising" :nono: the CRNA.

I'm sure after the "Gray's Anatomy" portrayal of an MDA, they just want their image to be better.

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This :nono: is by far the funniest smile I've ever seen, It just has the perfect hint of sarcasm, especially when used in a perfectly played statement like was done above..........well done!

This is actually kind of scary...... for all the reasons mentioned. I can't beleive the producer actually made that statement. Maybe he had a bad experience with an ologist or crna or something. Or just healthcare in general. Who knows?

My opinion, and I know it's unheard of, but wouldn't it benefit all of us if the AANA and ASA actually played a joint offensive on something like this?

And just a quick question.....as I don't know Jack about anesthesia........yet.........but isn't hearing the last sense to go and the first sense to come back.......is it possible that a patient could just hear something while being inducted or emerged, not actually experience the procedure and use that for grounds of a lawsuit, saying that they experienced the procedure? I'm not opposing that what happened to that woman was false as they found a tech stealing narcotics but it could happen right? Just wondering.

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This kind of thing can happen, did happen and does happen. It is not a slam on CRNAs or Anesthesiologists. Just something that needs to be considered when providing anesthesia. The OR I work in uses CRNAs and they are excellent. Much better than the anesthesia residents we have.

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Specializes in Onc/Hem, School/Community.

I have always received wonderful care from CRNAs. I actually prefer them because they tend to make me feel more comfortable. I had one that was a true advocate (vs. the surgeon) for me.

This movie will be a flop. Come on....how exciting can it be? Hopefully, it won't make many waves. With all of the various documentaries/crime shows that have shown criminal nurses killing patients with injections, suffocations, etc.......nurses are still the #1 most trusted people in America!

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JKW

You crack me up. You seem to weigh in heavily when there is any negative debate against CRNAs on SDN such as your comments in reference to CRNAs doing pain management. You then come to the CRNA website and anything you read that your view as negative to the ASA you simply can help yourself and have to comment. Please keep bowing to the almighty ASA, but do not expect us to do so with you. Just bear in mind that you are now in the CRNA forum and not SDN!

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JKW

You crack me up. Just bear in mind that you are now in the CRNA forum and not SDN!

Holy crap Batman - we're in the wrong forum!

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Who's we?

Get it right you are in the wrong forum!

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Who's we?

Get it right you are in the wrong forum!

Nah, I think I'll stay - it's too much fun here.
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Specializes in 5 yrs OR, ASU Pre-Op 2 yr. ER.

Thanks for the reminder, i'd forgotten what GRADE SCHOOL was like!!!!:rolleyes:

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Specializes in 5 yrs OR, ASU Pre-Op 2 yr. ER.

ANYWAY :rolleyes:

A movie like this is going to make already-nervous people worse, and help make people who weren't nervous before nervous now, about getting surgery.

While this is something that HAS happened, and WILL happen, a movie like this is going to make it seem like it's an extremely common occurance.

I see more Versed usage happening more often.

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Nah, I think I'll stay - it's too much fun here.

Funny JWK you seem like you have taken the same role that I have on SDN. Funny indeed.

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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. ...

BTW, the Turnstall isolated forearm technique was a very early attempt to monitor for unintended awareness during general anesthesia. It has been discredited for years as unreliable and useless.

It is a real shame that the media think they need to try to tell us how to do our jobs in order to protect the helpless public from our "incompetence".

loisane crna

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