Surgical shadowing

[deleted966164]

I'm getting a cholecystectomy in a few days. If I ask to stay conscious during the procedure (no anesthesia), can I count it as shadowing?

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[LizzyM]

I'm getting a cholecystectomy in a few days. If I ask to stay conscious during the procedure (no anesthesia), can I count it as shadowing?

If you have a cholecystectomy without anesthesia, you can count it as insanity!

 

[deleted966164]

If you have a cholecystectomy without anesthesia, you can count it as insanity!

So psychiatry shadowing? Lolz

I’m sure you know I’m joking.

 

[Gurby]

Seems reasonable.

Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy Under Epidural Anesthesia: A Feasibility Study

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) is normally performed under general anesthesia. But of late this operation has been tried under regional anesthesia successfully without any added complications like epidural anesthesia.The aim of the study was to study ...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

 

[LizzyM]

Seems reasonable.

Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy Under Epidural Anesthesia: A Feasibility Study

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) is normally performed under general anesthesia. But of late this operation has been tried under regional anesthesia successfully without any added complications like epidural anesthesia.The aim of the study was to study ...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Well that's epidural anesthesia... the OP was suggesting no anesthesia. I suppose strong ropes and a bullet to bite would be the order of the day. Like I said, "insanity".

 

[Seihai]

It's sad that I had to sit and think for about 30 seconds regarding whether this was sarcasm/a joke or not.

 

[Engrailed]

Wasn’t there actually someone else who posted earlier this cycle about making a bone marrow donation and potentially including this as an update/or with primary? The answer to that was a NO! lol #yikes