'Funny' anaesthesia responses

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I often see 'funny' videos of people after they have had anaesthesia, like

They all seem to be from the US. Is that because the anesthetic agents that are commonly used in the US are different to those used elsewhere (and more likely to provoke these responses). Or am I only seeing US content and it happens everywhere?

This question has bugged me for ages and I can't seem to find the answer by searching the net myself...

I had 3 and a half hours worth of surgery a couple of weeks ago and I ...... just woke up with them telling me it was all over. Wasn't to happy with the result, the surgery should have only been the maximum an hour.

Have had a fair amount of surgery over the years and have only ever just woke up.

It seems to be a particular sedative they use in the US, like a narcotic or twilight drug. I've always wondered too.

Maybe they're still knocking kids out at the dentist, whereas now afaik in the U.K. dentists only use local anaesthetic?

We wouldn't discharge a kid so spaced out after surgery.

It's because the type of sedation they use is mostly used for dental operations, but not routine dental treatment like fillings. Wisdom teeth are more commonly removed in the USA, even if they are healthy teeth that haven't caused any issues, which is why you see a lot of healthy young adults in these type of videos.

General anesthetic which is needed for other operations doesn't produce this effect.

Yes I think it's twilight sedation and in this country for dental work dentists usually do local and the patient wouldn't be groggy or GA.

Really really shit parenting to share video of a child both too young to consent and drugged at the time. Horrible.

I saw a dentist about the possibility of getting my wisdom teeth removed. I made a joke about this type of video. He said they were all staged.

I’m in Canada and have no clue what they use here.

Hmm interesting. Yes not very fair on the children whose parents post videos, but there are plenty of similar videos of adults.

I too thought I might have a funny response to sedation. I presumed it was common, but you just don't see videos from other places like UK because you aren't discharged/moved into a place where family/friends could video it. I've had sedation a few times. After the first time I asked the nurse if I'd done anything funny when I was 'out of it' but she just looked at me like I was strange for thinking something funny might happen.

I can't believe all these videos are staged. I'd love to know what agents are used that provoke these type of responses when they come round. If anyone knows please share 😁

Hehe anaesthetist. Loads do it, but it's by far more a bloke thing than a woman thing - they often talk garbage on waking, get many a proposal in recovery. Most talk rubbish on immediate waking which is the time period which people don't retrospectively have recall of (hence never tell them anything important immediately post op

The reason it's probably seen less here is the time spent in recovery is longer (often due to beds delays/ward staffing) so people don't tend to go back to the ward where relatives are until they're wide awake and back to normal.

How the heck is it safe to send children home in that state?

Never would in the uk. Am intrigued what they give as can't say I can think of our choices that would replicate

My son was 14 when he had his tonsils out. He came round from the general speaking only Spanish! The nurses were in fits! He is doing GCSE but is only at a normal yr10 level, nowhere near fluent. He did that for an hour before reverting to English

Agree, it's not unusual for people to be disorientated and say random weird stuff in recovery - apparently a few years ago when I had an operation in a hospital other than the one I worked in I was trying to persuade the recovery staff to all defect and come to work for us! But it usually wears off fairly quickly and we wouldn't send anyone out of recovery, never mind home, in the state that you see in this kind of video. I know there's more "outpatient surgery" in some other countries including the US, so maybe time in recovery is less, but some of these videos seem rather unlikely to me I must say.

Is it not just because you wouldn't be returned to a ward where a relative would be in a position to film a person this in this kind of state, you'd still be under the care of theatre nurses in recovery?

Not seen anyone like that degree in recoveryin 9y of Anaesthetics tbh

My friend who was a retail worker asked the nurse if she had her Tesco clubcard when she woke up from minor surgery.

Yes I was wondering if it happens but we just don't get discharged for anyone to film it. Or if it doesn't really happen in the UK because we use different anaesthetic agents. So I'm interested in what people who work in the field think.

My 14 yr old DS woke up from surgery angry and swinging punches. He's an MMA black belt and when I got to him they'd shifted him into the adult recovery room with several male nurses around him. Only last a few minutes though apparently.

I know this is a zombie but if you are still around David is quite happy about his fame, it contributed to his college tuition and has raised money for 'dental charities' whatever they are.

When my mum had an op it was our next door neighbour who was her recovery nurse so we got full feedback of what she had said.