Re: Info needed -- risks on general anesthesia for coma survivors

From: Sam Libowitz (libosam_at_pobox.com)
Date: 08/26/04 

Date: 26 Aug 2004 15:20:03 -0700

J <day@example.net> wrote in message news:<412D465C.F6DA2946@execulink.com>...
> Sam Libowitz wrote:
>
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>
> Hello Sam,
> I'm not a "medic".
> Some ideas what I might try.
> Book an appointment with the name of the anesthesiologist who wiill be
> overseeing her care during the surgery and ask his/her opinion. It might
> be helpful to find out which anesthetic is planned. (s)he may even decide,
> given enough information, a different type of anesthetic or may have
> encountered similar and may be able to allay your concerns. (or not).
>
> Ask the anesthesiologist on about.com
> His email is at the bottom http://anesthesiologyinfo.com/
>
> Try news:sci.med (longshot).
>
> I would think all three would want to know (in brief) what caused or led
> up to the coma, what tests (in brief) have been recently run on her brain
> or elsewhere. (or what was ruled out as a cause and how).
> Some causes of coma are listed here
> http://www.neurologychannel.com/coma/symptom.shtml
>
> Let us know how she's doing and how things go.
>
> Best wishes,
> J

There's some chance that the exact etiology of the coma is lost (it
was 20+ years ago and followed an auto accident), but the idea of
telling the proposed anesthesiologist what our concerns are, and
asking him what tests he'd like to have run to tell what the risks
are, is a good one. Thanks much, J.

Sam L.

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