What happens to you when you sleep during surgery and fall into a deep sleep/ Anesthesiologist reveals the details!

Numerous operations are performed on patients every day, but few know the complicated process of putting them to sleep with anesthesia.

The anesthesiologist's job is to numb your consciousness, eliminate pain, and immobilize your body during surgery. It measures your pulse while you are asleep, checks your breathing and blood pressure. Anesthesiologist Henry Jay Przybylo reveals exactly what happens after you fall fast asleep on the operating table!  

The "valves" between the throat and pharynx loosen, allowing the contents to pass into the mouth, until the gag reflex no longer prevents entry into the throat. If the food ends up in the airways, the patient may suffocate or the acidity of the lung may damage the lung tissue.

Patients are usually advised not to eat anything for 6 to 8 hours before surgery. Only clear liquids are allowed, even up to two hours before the operation, taking into account that they should not fill the stomach with sourness. Fatty food produces the strongest acidity, which takes eight hours to be eliminated from the stomach.

Some patients feel everything

To ensure complete amnesia, they are sometimes given additional medication during the procedure. It is said that no patient will remember what happened until they were in a deep sleep, but some do.

Older people need a smaller dose

The percentage of inhaled gas that is necessary to achieve a state of chemical coma does not differ greatly, given the species and size, be it mouse, elephant or human.

In fact, more variation appears with age than between species – the older you are, the less gas is needed. The same cannot be said for anesthesia drugs which are applied by injection.