>>13600021>I'm researching intraoperative awareness>continues on with the most pleb-tier understanding of anesthesiaYou're a dumb faggot and probably aren't actually 'researching' anything at all.
There are plenty of ways that anesthesiologists can use to determine whether the unconscious(and paralyzed with neuromuscular blockers) patient is experiencing pain, mostly indirectly - through sympathetic nervous system response - elevated BP, pulse, pupil dilation, etc.; but also directly with methods like BIS-monitoring
As to intraoperative awareness - it IS a real but an extremely rare condition, one that I only know of through studies and articles, and none of my colleagues, including boomers practicing since the 90s, have ever encountered it irl.
99% of the people claiming they experienced it are easily revealed to be attention-seekers/schizos after further questioning, because they all claim to remember 'the surgeon cutting me open' - because that's what they imagine they should feel during a surgery(never mind that sometimes they claim that even during laparoscopies when their most uncomfortable experience should've been their abdomen getting inflated), and yet they never remember a big-ass fucking metal blade lifting their neck tissues, they never remember a plastic tube shoved through their throat and vocal folds into the trachea, they don't remember my fingers in their mouth, they don't remember me suctioning around their throat and extubating them at the end, etc. etc(that's not even mentioning stuff like placing a CVC or flipping them onto the side/stomach for certain procedures)
>and the amnesia drugs simply cause you to forget itMost anesthetics DO have an amnesia effect, but that's only relevant for minor procedures and the most surface sedation, i.e. during stuff like colonoscopies or D&C, where the level of anesthesia is adjusted on the fly to be as minimal as possible(so as to ensure spontaneous breathing and quick awakening), not actual 'surgeries'
