Anesthesiologists Have Discovered A New State Of Consciousness

According to Professor Pandit, anesthesiologist at Oxford University Hospitals, there is a state of consciousness in which some patients take refuge when they are subjected to general anesthesia.

Is it possible to wake up during general anesthesia?

According to Pandit, the possibility of a third dimension of consciousness stems mainly from the variability of the medical specialty.

No one can ever be 100% sure that the drugs given have had the desired effect. It is very difficult to identify the right drug and the precise amount for each patient, even after many years of training and experience in operating theaters.

Yes, it is possible to wake up during surgery, but not totally. We then find ourselves in this state of consciousness described by Professor Pandit in his studies.

We are not clearly awake, we cannot move or communicate, but we are not completely immune to external stimuli.

Awake anesthesia is a condition in which the patient is neither conscious nor completely unconscious. It concerns a small minority of patients who enter the operating room and who are subjected to general anesthesia.

This fact worries professionals. The patient is aware of the operation and everything that is going on around him, but there is nothing he can do about it.

I can feel his hands in my body, the surgical tools inside of me. I am scared. I have trouble breathing. I would like to scream! But I can’t articulate, to get out words, because there is a tube in my throat. I can not move ! I am paralyzed.

But don’t panic! According to statistics, only one in 15,000 patients admits, when they wake up, to having experienced a similar episode during their operation. Even after being subjected to anesthesia, these patients never manage to reach a state of total unconsciousness.

Such a state of consciousness has been proven to exist

Dr Padit is considered one of the best anesthesiologists in his country, and has focused his research on this phenomenon of awake anesthesia. These studies clearly call into question the monitoring methods during an intervention.

This is because anesthesiologists control heart rate, blood pressure, respiration, concentration of anesthetics in the blood, etc., but all of this does not seem to be sufficient to ensure the patient’s state of total unconsciousness during a surgical intervention.

Certain symptoms of waking up, such as increased heart rate or increased blood pressure, should alert surgeons. However, these physiological signals can usually be turned off by taking medication during the operation.

The famous anesthetist used an old technique that paralyzes the whole body, except the patient’s forearms, to demonstrate that it is possible.

A third of the patients, who were apparently unconscious during the procedure, could move their fingers in response to certain instructions.

“These patients were in a state of unconsciousness but could still respond to certain external stimulants, such as a verbal command,” said Dr. Pandit.

“What is extraordinary is that they move their fingers only if ordered to do so. No patient reacted during the surgery. They surely did not feel any pain ”.

While this is actually a very rare possibility, an experience of this magnitude can be extremely traumatic.

Indeed, patients who experience this state of consciousness usually suffer from post-traumatic stress, anxiety and panic attacks.

However, we are still unable to establish exactly what human consciousness is. So spotting unconsciousness is even more difficult …