Anaesthetics
People have a fear of being awake when an operation is started. But in a 8.8. C. broadcast on medical matters a doctor emphasised this w.asn’t possible. He said: “You may not start the operation until maybe five, 10 minutes later, by which time the patient is well asleep. The way in which we now anaesthetise people is that where we used to give them large amounts of the few anaesthetics available in order to complete the operation, now we give them a mixture of drugs that we have at our disposal. We can make It so that they don’t have very much of any one, and so that they wake up with a reasonable feeling, just as though they’ve had an ordinary night’s sleep.”
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31333, 1 April 1967, Page 5
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