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Awake surgery led to suicide
USINFO | 2013-12-04 21:51
Awake surgery led to suicide in April last year, the West Virginia Sherman - Size Mo's family said, because of the lack of anesthesia during surgery, Size Mo could feel every action of the doctor's scalpel biting terrible, they believe, The thing that led to his suicide two weeks after.
January 19, 2006, aged 73 Size Mo was sent to the Berkeley City, Virginia, USA, Raleigh hospital and underwent surgery to determine the reason for his abdominal pain. But during surgery, he experienced a phenomenon called anesthesia awareness, which is the general anesthesia, patients can still feel pain during surgery, pressure or discomfort, but they can not move or can not communicate with the doctor.Some medical experts say, from 20,000 to 40,000 patients each year may experience the phenomenon of anesthesia awareness, which may be caused by a doctor's mistake or faulty equipment. According to the family's Description Size Mo anesthesia experts for patients injected anesthetics, however, he injected the anesthetic effect of the drugs can only be maintained for the first 16 minutes of abdominal surgery in patients.
Lawyer Tony agent Si Zemo family - Odell said, the case is still ongoing, so I can not provide more details.Size Mo's daughter, Sheila - Dickens appeared in ABC's "Good Morning America" program in May to discuss the case. Dickens said: "My father told me to say, 'You know what I feel I cut, I can feel it.'" His daughter said this experience has taught his father a changed man.Size Man's of another daughter Lai Nuoka - Graham said: "So deeply changed him, and did not, he was afraid of a man, old nightmares ... and he felt himself falling into an abyss. Raleigh Hospital this did not make any comment.
January 19, 2006, aged 73 Size Mo was sent to the Berkeley City, Virginia, USA, Raleigh hospital and underwent surgery to determine the reason for his abdominal pain. But during surgery, he experienced a phenomenon called anesthesia awareness, which is the general anesthesia, patients can still feel pain during surgery, pressure or discomfort, but they can not move or can not communicate with the doctor.Some medical experts say, from 20,000 to 40,000 patients each year may experience the phenomenon of anesthesia awareness, which may be caused by a doctor's mistake or faulty equipment. According to the family's Description Size Mo anesthesia experts for patients injected anesthetics, however, he injected the anesthetic effect of the drugs can only be maintained for the first 16 minutes of abdominal surgery in patients.
Lawyer Tony agent Si Zemo family - Odell said, the case is still ongoing, so I can not provide more details.Size Mo's daughter, Sheila - Dickens appeared in ABC's "Good Morning America" program in May to discuss the case. Dickens said: "My father told me to say, 'You know what I feel I cut, I can feel it.'" His daughter said this experience has taught his father a changed man.Size Man's of another daughter Lai Nuoka - Graham said: "So deeply changed him, and did not, he was afraid of a man, old nightmares ... and he felt himself falling into an abyss. Raleigh Hospital this did not make any comment.
