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

From: Larry (Larry_at_nospam.net)
Date: 08/27/04 

Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 02:14:55 GMT

Or possibly getting a 2nd anesthesiologist opinion? Actually ... this
sounds like a perfect reason to have it done at a major medical
institution who may have dealt with this situation before.

Larry E.

Sam Libowitz wrote:
> J <day@example.net> wrote in message news:<412D465C.F6DA2946@execulink.com>...
>
>>Sam Libowitz wrote:
>>
>
> <snip>
>
>>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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