what drug to they use on you during surgery?!
Question: What drug to they use on you during surgery?
Answers:
Oooh! Lots of things!
To be put off to sleep (we call that induction), we usually use propofol, but might go with etomidate, methohexital, pentothal, or ketamine, depending on the situation. We can also put people to sleep with gas (nitrous oxide + oxygen + sevoflurane), but usually reserve that for children under the age of 8. Most people get nothing but oxygen by mask until after the IV drugs are given.
To keep people asleep, we use a balanced technique involving potent inhalation anesthetics (sevoflurane, desflurane or isoflurane), opiates (fentanyl, hydromorphone, morphine, sufentanil, alfentanil), amnestics (midazolam), +/- paralytics (rocuronium, vecuronium, pancuronium).
We also give medications to help prevent nausea, to reverse the paralytics if they were used, and to raise or lower blood pressure or heart rate (if needed).
That's just a start, but probably more than you wanted to know.
I'm an anesthesiologist. I live and breathe this stuff.
fentanyl and lidocaine for anesthesia. But please please ask them to make sure you are not allergic to them before you have the procedure. My daughter was put under and they used these and she had a sever allergic reaction and had what is called a De-saturation. She had to be resistated I almost lost my daughter. It was not anyones fault because this is not something that happens a lot. But just take all the precautions that you can to be sure you will be okay
They'll use some sort of opioid pain killer via IV + an antibiotic like Clindamycin. Both are cornerstones of modern surgery. Before the pain killers, you'd strangle them. Before modern antibiotics, you'd die post surgery from infection.
Morphine