Each operation, involving 10-12 hours 'starvation' ahead of the general anaesthetic, left me very weak.
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His death was ruled as homicide, largely as a result of the powerful anaesthetic drug Propofol.
My knees are still numb with the anaesthetic but it's absolutely amazing how I'm feeling.
Firstly, there is a tiny extra risk of complications because of the general anaesthetic.
The charity describes it as being potentially life-threatening and sometimes carried out without anaesthetic.
Early tests suggest 2-heptanone may also find a role in humans as a local anaesthetic.
When they returned to Earth, the monkeys were given a general anaesthetic on the first day.
This is done using a needle and syringe under a general anaesthetic in a hospital.
In many cases a local anaesthetic was applied before the limb was removed with simple surgical instruments.
Mrs Cannon, a great-grandmother from Wavertree, Liverpool, has had two courses of RFA under a local anaesthetic.
He blamed the result of the drug test on an anaesthetic injection he had during dental treatment.
Among other treatments, doctors can block nerve transmission with local anaesthetic can also help disturb pain messages.
The National Oral Health Plan says over 9, 600 children underwent a general anaesthetic for tooth extraction in 2010-11.
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Most of these patients either came round too soon from general anaesthetic or took too long to go under.
It can be corrected with surgery that can be done as a day case, under local anaesthetic and sedation.
In so doing he has succeeded in forcing a radical rethink amongst healthcare workers, particularly those involved in frontline anaesthetic practice.
Over the years, survival rates have improved as a result of more accurate imaging studies and better anaesthetic and operative techniques.
If the drug is deemed suitable it is injected into the muscle while the patient is sedated or under local anaesthetic.
Smaller surveys of patients have revealed higher rates - of as much as one in every 500 operations done under general anaesthetic.
The stand-off was undergoing routine surgery for minor cartilage damage when he technically died for 30 seconds after being given an anaesthetic.
Anaesthetists also do this in hospital when they give a general anaesthetic.
The surgeons told me that these were all common after-effects of anaesthetic.
The Forth Valley Royal Hospital in Larbert will use a family of seven special mannequins, including Stan, who can respond to anaesthetic gases.
There is some evidence that says if you have these operations when you're awake, and have a regional anaesthetic, you may do better afterwards.
The risk of waking from a general anaesthetic while under the surgeon's knife is extremely small - about one in 15, 000 - research reveals.
The gadget, which is worn on the patient's nightgown, slowly releases the anaesthetic directly to the area where the surgery has been carried out.
In this case, however, the patient - a professional magician - was given an epidural anaesthetic, similar to that given to a woman during labour.
The study will assess if "sham feeding" can stop nausea after surgery which can be caused by a patient being starved before a general anaesthetic.
The condition means she will never be able to undergo a general anaesthetic or do anything that puts a strain on her heart or lungs.
Nitrous Oxide is an anaesthetic normally found in hospitals and dentists.
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