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Midaz can be used as premedication before induction of general anesthesia, but it's not an induction agent itself. If you're getting general (as opposed to "twi
by carbocation 11y ago
Midaz can be used as premedication before induction of general anesthesia, but it's not an induction agent itself. If you're getting general (as opposed to "twilight") anesthesia, once you're induced, you should be unconscious (to the best of our ability to understand consciousness).
I'm medicine, not anesthesia, so I don't use these agents all day and therefore referred to cardioversion which is more in my domain. Cheers!
- tptacek 11y agoI am noting with interest and a small amount of alarm the abruptness with which you've ejected yourself from this thread after my suggestion that all of anesthesia is a huge scam. :)
- Anderkent 11y agoFWIW, unlikely. I specifically remember being asked to count down from 10, going like 8 7 6 ... 5 wait I feel weird and sleepy. That is, my first thought after being woken up was the next number in sequence. It seems unlikely that would be the case if the time inbetween was spent thinking 'oh my god this hurts so much' rather than just blacked out.
- tptacek 11y agoWere you given a benzo specifically to erase your memory of the events? Because this thread is about the fact that many (maybe most) surgical patients are. (Let me clear, I'm being deliberately silly about all this. I do not think there is a huge anesthesia conspiracy. I am, at the same time, seriously skeeved out by having my memory deliberately tampered with.)
- Anderkent 11y ago> Were you given a benzo specifically to erase your memory of the events? I don't remember! :P
- carbocation 11y agoOffering tptacek a dose of midaz: There is no thread.