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true to its stores 70 d.w. . of. the fusible. first. waking up when an artificial sleep is supposed to keep you safe from fear and pain . this nightmare scenario happened to vent addressed during open heart surgery. i just can't take this i'm going crazy a constant this concert when i was thinking and i kept hoping we have to lose consciousness and then not noticing why aren't they noticing there's a market for. this couple it's difficult to describe the kind of pain you have.

it shoots through your whole body. then at the last that tried desperately to get someone's attention. but he couldn't move. virtually every general anesthetic contains substances that paralyze our muscles. it was horrible the doctors just carried on and chanted no one noticed the state i was in after a long while i suddenly heard a voice. i think something's not right the anesthesia is lifting the patient is breathing himself. it's wait a minute. let's give him a bit more. then there was this hissing and i was our.

manifesto scored it's in saxony is one of around $16000.00 people who wake up during general anesthesia every year in germany accidentally. it was a traumatic experience. and he still haunted by nightmares years later. why he had experienced anesthesia awareness was never explained bennett the best asked the doctors. they said this kind of thing shouldn't happen and i can't imagine what it's like and i hoped he would never happen again but they also said there's no point in my taking legal action because i wouldn't get anywhere else if the doctors admitted fault but have to cover the costs. around 16000000 medical procedures requiring general anesthesia are carried out every year

in germany during which one patient in a 1000 experiences unintended intra operative awareness has managed to rest with it . many believe consciousness has an on off switch. yet scientists don't even truly understand why we need normal sleep and why we dream. we know even less about artificial sleep. vienna general hospital where we've been allowed to film a general anesthesia procedure from beginning to end. and you did schieffer is an anesthesiologist general anesthesia is part of her daily routine. every patient gets to break before surgery. alcohol consumption regularly occasionally twice

a week. age illnesses medications you to chief needs to know as much as possible about her patients to be able to decide which anesthetics to use and with what dose . what about your teeth all good. yes. you have how did you tell the right your last. after. noisiest did you vomit as well also vomited. the conversation isn't only for gathering necessary health data it's also intended to assure patients. here of the unintended interoperate. fear of waking during surgery of being paralyzed and aware but without being able to speak. that's the fear of patients talk about most often . i kissed and tissue was scheduled for uterine surgery the next day.

before my whole body resisted the anesthesia and i felt really bad and then collapsed that was really unpleasant this time i'm putting that aside and telling myself these people will look after me and nothing will happen so no i'm not really afraid anymore as a thing which was. the word anesthesia comes from greek for without sensation its development was a blessing for patients who until the 19th century were operated on without anesthesia. there were attempts to relieve pain through hypnosis alcohol or opium. but the doses were administered haphazardly. and often even when operations had been successful the patients died. then as the c.e.o. was 1st demonstrated in boston and 846 dentist william morton put the patient into an artificial sleep with ether and then removed the tumor. the operation was a success that made headlines worldwide. years later anaesthesia with artificial

mechanical respiration was introduced by the turn of the century spinal anesthesia which specifically blocks the sensation of pain in the lower half of the body had also been invented. new and better anesthetics rapidly developed from 1950 onward. numerous hospitals open anesthesiology departments which are today indispensable in modern medicine. the following morning at the vienna university general hospital. patients kissed in tissues ready for surgery. and we also have e.c.g. electro blood pressure cuffs oxygen saturation. general anesthesia always consists of 3 parts 1st there is a strong painkiller. you may be getting a little toy it's

a little dazed to just take nice deep breaths and think of something pleasant. on humans is the way the more you think about what she doing this scarier it feels to think well. this 2nd step. is going to extend as the medication that makes you fall asleep. until. the sleep inducing drugs used are hypnotics that switch off consciousness just keep breathing in and out take a deep breath. since it are you feeling sleepy already. the most commonly used anesthesia inducer is propofol. and injection works within

a few seconds. the last step is muscle relaxants substances that relax muscles and the mobilize the patient. without these the body's protective reflexes could cause involuntary twitching even while under. under that you please. and press. patients would suffocate without artificial ventilation. once anesthesia has been induced patients must be kept under. as just an tissues prone to nausea she's receiving propofol as this causes nausea less frequently than bottle gaseous anesthetics. propofol can have other side effects such as drops in blood pressure or apnea. kiersten say she is now unresponsive.

but what does that actually mean is she asleep is she unconscious. a study in munich is trying to find answers to these questions head of anesthesiology heart schneider is testing what happens in the brain when consciousness is lost under anesthesia. so far we know very little about the brain mechanisms involved in this process. magnetic resonance imaging provides brain scans of test persons while they are awake and under general anesthesia. so where is consciousness located. yeah we anesthesiologists have a very simplistic idea of consciousness. for us patients are unconscious when they're unresponsive or in react or. what i call our consciousness component is basically a reaction to stimulus. our conscious reaction to stimuli. but for

psychologists or social scientists this has nothing to do with consciousness. scientists long believed anesthesia switched off the entire brain like a light switch but as schneider has observed in fact only certain brain regions marked red here are less active under anesthesia. these regions are part of the brain's functional network where several brain areas work together to achieve efficient connectivity. these networks are responsible for processing incoming stimuli such as sound or pressure and interpret ing them to form conscious perceptions and if the zia disrupts these networks. during reduced consciousness the primary sensory areas the parts of the brain

responsible for the 1st stage of stimuli processing. are completely active. martially they're even more active than when we were awake but the next step the interpretation of higher order processing does not happen that final stage of consciousness is disrupted by anaesthesia. exactly how anesthesia it disrupts the brain's functional networks is what basic research scientists and. doing it are hoping to find out. the. band. is investigating how anaesthetics work on a molecular level. the challenge is that there are dozens of them. and their molecular structure alone suggests each is very different. from. us but when they work they all lead to the same effect on consciousness it's just you

know how can that me. we have identified proteins that are absolutely essential for anaesthesia but identifying these small building blocks alone doesn't come close to explaining how consciousness is lost on a log. the researchers are using mouse brains to try to better understand how different substances used in anesthesia who work. for many decades scientists thought all anesthetics essentially blocked information from reaching neurons by causing a malfunction and their lippitt membranes. however this lifted theory has since been abandoned today researchers know that every anesthetic has a different way of causing unconsciousness. brain tissue cultures taken from areas of the brain involved in loss of consciousness are put into a nutrient solution for several weeks during which time they grow into many brains which can be used for experiments. this is what researchers have

discovered so far. in our central nervous systems received and processed stimuli from the external world individual neurons communicate with each other across gaps called synapses. synaptic communication or transmission works like this. neuron a emits messenger substances called neurotransmitters which bind to receptor in neuron b. . anesthetics such as. mainly acted on the neurotransmitter gaba which dampens the signals. of all reinforces this dampening effect and thus prevents the neuron from sending out a signal. the damping occurs at several locations in the central nervous system. precisely which are

responsible for a patient losing consciousness is not yet clear. and most likely also depends on the anesthetic used. there are anesthetics that do not act on the messenger but on the other neurotransmitters the tuning and researchers are investigating these differences with a micro e.g. that measures signal transmission in the many brains of neurons. so far all anesthetic drugs have been found by trial and error doctors know that they work but not exactly how they work. however understanding the how is an important prerequisite for reducing side effects. we should really be looking at patients individual needs and attributes and choosing the substances they get accordingly we need a rational approach and not just a trial and error approach to see if it works and if it does that's good enough the

. trial and error right. one in order to minimize and reduce errors perspective anesthesiologists at the height of burke anesthesia and emergency medicine simulation center artists on dollars worth. left director and anesthesiologist christopher annoyed house. explains the simulation of. a 45 year old man was hit by a car in the city while walking and he still away as spontaneous breathing and his circulation is stable system the rest you'll see in a moment now. the instructors control the dall from the next room. doc i missed a good i'm the anything could you open your mouth please. yes can you stretch your

neck. yes good friends a bit of a could you please do something for the pain my stomach hurts so much yeah yes we'll give you something now mystically going to begin the anesthesia the 1st truck will make you a bit fuzzy we're going to take good care of you is this is it to some it's interesting to see how quickly you forget that it's only a plastic doll with a bunch of telltale sign else months participants get used to the situation they don't just speak to the dog they show it real empathy and stroke its cheek and reassure it before the honest these your kicks in. which shows how quickly you can forget it's not real and yet snit the purpose of this exercise is to train team communication in stressful situations approximately 60 to 80 percent of problems during anesthesia are due to human failure. which is kind of his it's was i wouldn't exactly call it failure because it's

a value judgement of the technology used in this area so good that it's not the problem and it's these your machines don't just suddenly explode and devices don't suddenly fail which leaves communication and teamwork where misunderstandings do occur that can lead to mistakes happening misfortune is often done this instead inference is a very good singer. the trainer simulate the worst case scenario cardiac arrest and we don't have any circulation anymore so we need to press. very. clear to me is the pressure rising. with the one we're just receiving. from a pause for a moment circulation is picking up the phone. thanks very much let's stop here for now take a deep breath i want to think how was it for you. i think i could have called the

attending physician earlier before i started the anesthesia but i think overall we got through it well. the seminar is not a test participants actions are evaluated but no marks given also everything here is strictly confidential. each day over $40000.00 general anaesthetic sort ministered in germany lots of them at the clinic are w t h often. marco is preparing for a very special anesthesia an operation with scene on. scene on is a noble gas used in fluorescent tubes or car headlights and it can also be used in the operating theatre. seen on has been called the miracle anesthetic drug because it's proven to be well tolerated even by sensitive patients or people in very poor health. in contrast to other

anesthetics. it puts hardly any strain on circulation. the effect begins quickly and also disappears quickly so that patients regain alertness soon after surgery. this is a fear not of the 0 i just want to end the honest these you that they can make a patient up very quickly this is the fastest drug we have and that is the easier in terms of coronary flow dynamics the effect. as on blood pressure is very stable and patient's blood pressure remains approximately what it was at the beginning which is much better for them and that wasn't even. coburn was researching how well elderly patients recovered after hip surgery he found that xenon anesthesia leads to significantly less complications and mortality is also lower. seen on has been approved as an anesthetic gas since 2005.

lab tests have shown that the noble gas has neuroprotective properties meaning it protects the brain from damage. but today it's only rarely used the reason for it is it's cost. a one hour long list easier with xenon costs between 20300 euros other anesthetics are only about 50 euros. it would be great if we could generate more money. to be able to carry out large trials and to further research what we've found so far. but there are many factors at play here. and at the moment it's uncertain whether xenon will even still be on the market in a few years time. because it's so expensive. and and corporations are deciding whether or not to continue this research the highlight of. our research project

can cost between 20 and 30000000 euros the money for this comes from industry. back in vienna. at the university hospital the operation we have been given permission to observe is underway. anesthesiologist who did she feel monitors the patient's vital functions blood pressure heartbeat and oxygen saturation. that. we've been to. in addition an e.g. monitor measures brain waves which helps determine the depth of anesthesia. to see me i missed out and here we see the stage as a to f. the focused on the let's say basically means being away from the b. and c.

can be read as lies in this these. as a kind of dozing them off. stage is d. and e. show us that's like she has now a patient has a good depth of and this is the set up. there are no numbers on how often anesthesia is monitored with e.g. experts estimate the technique is part of routine procedure in less than half of all hospitals in germany. schieffer uses e.g. often but not exclusively is kind and so she didn't have various parameters can indicate that a patient is awakening or experiencing pain. in our line of work we also keep an eye on whether the patient is sweating. whether there's an increase in heart rate hike or an increase in blood pressure stick this pope looks and people with this can also be a sign. as well as to. the tween. a

study on interoperate of alertness is currently underway in munich. patient nina have now is being prepared for knee surgery. this cap measures brain waves even more precisely than the standard 3 electrodes on the forehead. the researchers have developed a method for communicating with the patient in case she wakes up during surgery. to say. a blood pressure cuff keeps the muscle relaxing medication from getting into her forearm. this ensures that if the patient is conscious while under anesthesia she can move her hand.

squeeze my hand. menace fish if there are fish in the sea squeeze my hand. if a stone floats in the words here squeeze my hand. and smack if you have pain from a squeeze my hands twice miss head. and the most recent study like this one almost 5 percent of patients did clench their hands. patients who take opioids regularly have a higher risk of regaining consciousness while still under anesthesia as did drug and alcohol addicts people who are often extremely scared of surgery. i have not made have not pressed my hand twice if everything's fine it's the middle of an event moment in that we currently cannot rule out consciousness with 100 percent certainty using the methods of e.g. analysis we have now that's one problem the other problem is that the e.g.

only react when wakefulness has already occurred or getting that by the time the calculator to e.g. index value detect something the event already took place for. the study in munich is also examining subconscious memory can patients remember things in spite of anaesthesia. or cluck. cluck. into the industry factory to factory. only one word in each pair was mentioned during the operation the patient has to choose which feels more familiar. with him we're really still at the very beginning so we can't really predict the outcome yet but we have been surprised a few times on the one hand there are patients who clench their hands when asked to do so. and on the other hand they're also patients who even if they aren't consciously remembering. are able to recall lists that we played with

a high level of success. anesthesiologists at the university hospital had developed a new device for monitoring anesthesia the risk of waking up during an operation is particularly high when drugs are administered intravenously like propofol. one possible reason for this is that propofol concentration in the body cannot be measured yet. but in inhalation anesthetics the so-called blood gas partition coefficient describes this. and the fact that the concentration of volatile anesthetics can be measured a measure of the concentration which i didn't have until now with propofol which is why the probability of over and under dosing is higher than with gas anesthetics. for. this new device is intended to remedy the situation the edm on

measures the concentration of propofol in the patient's body via his breath. says propofol is almost always used during general anesthesia induction but to maintain the artificial sleep in only around 20 percent of operations. he says that percentage is likely to rise significantly with the new edmund device. after the operation the researchers compare the values measured by the ad man with the propofol concentration in the blood. each patient process is the anesthetic differently. confusion anxiety hallucinations these are the symptoms of post operative delirium . a condition that more than a 3rd of patients over 60 experience. your

mom had such a delirium in 2016 he suffered organ failure and was kept in an artificial coma for 4 weeks a long term general anaesthetic. the waking up basis lasted several days afterwards he was completely disoriented and had bit hallucinations. it was an intense phase when i couldn't tell if something was real. or if i was falling back into a dream i'd had before i really struggled to distinguish the 2. is still in touch with. the doctor who treated him back then. he would again and again have these phases where he was very agitated and that's

typical for a delirium. we call them function trajectory. where a patient moves between being very absent very subdued to being severely agitated and plagued by fear. but delirium will frequently damage a patient's brain permanently york naaman managed to recover fully. if you are someone who was pretty active before. and then you have to learn to walk again from wheelchair to walker to a crutch it can be frustrating and i think having my family really helped me because i wanted to get home again as quickly as possible doesn't contribute it's all been through it's not yet clear what exactly triggers a delirium after a general anaesthetic. noice and

stress commotion studies show that conditions in intensive care units promote the development of delirium. this room in the via show clinic in berlin has been designed in a way intended to reduce deliriums and be able to treat them better. the most important strategy used in this intensive care unit of the future is providing patients with him put so they don't feel lost for example like panels simulate the day night rhythm. secondly commotion a noise or avoided. nurses only enter the rooms when necessary otherwise they keep an eye on patients from a surveillance room. still talking all i think you can hear that it's much quieter in this room than in the other rooms and in these normally intensive care rooms have noise levels of 80 decibels whereas here we're trying to reduce it to 35.

we're also trying to take all the devices that scare patients out of their direct line of vision. which is why we position the breathing machine and syringe drivers behind a partition he puts. the 3rd part of the concept is to have alert active patients in the past long term sedation or even artificial comas were popular methods in intensive care units. today anesthesia is to be kept as brief as possible. to be tested yes every delirium we can avoid every damaged organ we can avoid reduces the risk of cognitive impairment 25 percent of patients have cognitive damage after intensive care with an impairment level similar to all timers. and that means they can't return to living alone at home just like they used to they can't return to the job market or their

professions and that's why i think we have to keep on top of. the new intensive care concept has reduced the number of delirium cases by a 3rd. of what researchers at the sherry today want to begin their efforts earlier during surgery and. even in the deep with the anesthesia the more likely it is a delirium will occur so general anesthesia has to be deep enough for a patient to have no memories and no unpleasant sensations but not so deep that too much medication has to be administered to feel good and then. the doctors at the shari taint. len show us how this can be achieved using the example of a big prostate removal. they combine general anesthesia with regional anesthesia. pain killers are injected directly into the abdomen to switch off any feelings of pain there.

when general anesthesia is accompanied by regional anesthesia a smaller dose of anesthetic suffices. gets here and here we have a general anesthesia with a very low concentration of inhalation and i say 6. we giving the patient so little the machines are sounding the alarm to say you're using too little medication your patient will wake up because machines and he used to us watching and reading the igi line but it shows us that he's under far enough of the city from the actually of. death the dentist t.c.m. dosage of medication duration of anesthesia details on all 3 factors during the operation are collected and say. these details are subsequently combined with data on the patient's health and post-operative recovery for the bio cox study at the

shari tay. the aim of this study is to give researchers a measure of whether their efforts can successfully prevent a delirium after the operation anesthesiologist on a camilla helps the patient get his bearings at the earliest possible time. it's 20 to 6 pm the operation is over you're in the recovery room you can now take your time to wake and your wife already know. this but checklist is used to ascertain whether a delirium is happening. but is everything ok. that are. you know that some delirium patients are hyperactive or aggressive others apathetic and absent at the latter it's especially hard to detect a delirium. you've said you see and hear me well. and we can also talk to each

other well. that's absolutely. the study on the lariam risk factors involved 1200 patients between 65 and 80 years old. their physical and mental conditions before and after the operation are tested and compared. if you want to oppose a test at any point just let me know and i'll stop. the studies participants will be accompanied for 3 years. early results already indicate several risk factors. these include cardiovascular diseases metabolic disorders such as diabetes and infections in the body. researchers concluded that especially higher risk patients should be closely monitored for signs of delirium. they also suggest caregivers and relatives should take particular care of them. back in vienna.

usual surgery is over and everything went fine. anesthesiologist due to cheaper has turned off the sleeping drug during the final phase of the operation. all that's left now is to wait. to see still far far away. the waking up phase is critical. both the sleep inducing drugs and the muscle relaxants should stop working at the same time. in 5 man hits in the high if the effect of the muscle relaxant hasn't worn off a patient could find themselves in a situation where they want to breathe but can't because their muscle function isn't fully restored yet most kids who won in the space today it's to me to have a state. that's what the. 10

market morning you would to market morning and deep breaths in the end out take a deep breath in one open your mouth why it's guns or take your time yeah come on yes we can take it out yeah come on open your mouth half a perfect good morning. oh god it hurts. the patient is in pain this shouldn't be the case. the deep breaths in and out the big gray yes. you did he for injects some more pain killers. still. i listen i'm still not cool so only know the anesthesia went well and the stupid c. however in the end the patient needed

a higher dose of painkillers than we initially thought but it does take that there's this has to do with pain pills seps and varying between people so it's hard to previous s. it. seems. every person's perception of pain is different researchers make use of this in their search for alternatives to general anesthesia. for example when you know. there's fresh clean air. coming in through the window. hypnosis instead of anesthesia and sounds a bit like a joke. but neurosurgeon. is building on a long tradition. during the early days of surgery practically every operation was performed with the use of hypnosis. but with the development of

modern drugs this is been completely forgotten and. at the university hospital of vienna hypnosis is used for brain surgery. this patient has parkinson's disease ok deep brain stimulation is supposed to reduce the strong tremor. this also slows breathing and decelerates the heartbeat of. but in contrast to anesthesia here the patient is fully conscious. even when a hole is drilled in his skull the hypnotist incorporates the sounds into the hypnosis. but their construction workers won't stop they even start drilling with the pneumatic am or. you can open your mouth and it's not so bad here exactly. pain perception is used in hypnosis as in the patient feels the pain but this can be incorporated into other experiences and

rebuilt so that it's positive and not so unpleasant. and. this is the patient only receives painkillers but no sleep inducing drugs. in order to check whether the electrodes for deep brain stimulation are correctly positioned the patient is taken out of hypnosis. on the count of 3 open your eyes wide and take a good breath ok they're all here and there. if you know what does this mean for neurologists it's important to be able to test patients during the operation to see the effect on the trauma and for that the patient needs to be awake and alert or general anesthesia sometimes doesn't clear up straight away or patients are tired so they can do the tasks promptly that's different with hypnosis patients are awake and can participate well which helps improve the surgery outcome ignace though they were not all as i. know says has many advantages patients are

less scared their blood circulation is more stable bleeding happens less often less pain medication gets used and patients who are hypnotised stay in hospitals for less time than those who received general anesthesia. medicine has made huge leaps forward and only one in 136000 operations has a patient died from the effects of anesthesia. and so forth icici on going under anesthesia 30 years ago was very different to our it is today in terms of tolerance effectiveness maintenance side effects. but there's still room for improvement using e.g. to monitor anaesthesia depth is not yet standard everywhere. i still don't understand why anesthesiologist measure everything blood pressure heart rate saturation but the brain where things are happening isn't monitored. basic research

will continue developing and perhaps someday lift the mystery of anesthesia. we need personalized fantasies here that's the point but we don't have that. i am. in good shape. fear and anxiety on perfectly normal even healthy feelings. but what happens if they take over our lives and we're playing days and nights. by panic attacks phobias and disorders are we looking into causes and ways to cope with anxiety and

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