A patient from the Australian state of Queensland woke up during a complex operation and was unable to warn doctors. His story is published on ABC.net.
25-year-old Corey Burke (Corey Burke) claims to have come to consciousness on the operating table after the anesthesia has ceased to work. “I woke up and tried to tell the doctors, but they continued the operation anyway,” he recalls.
Burke believes that the anesthesia worked poorly due to the strong release of adrenaline into the bloodstream before starting therapy. According to him, he felt discomfort, but did not experience pain. The patient was diagnosed with mental retardation, so Gary’s assistant was usually with him. However, during the operation, Burke was left alone with the doctors.
“People do not know that I have a disability. My disability cannot be seen. Sometimes nurses do not understand that I am sick until they speak to me,” said the Australian. Burke stressed that not all doctors know how to treat people with “intellectual disabilities” and urges doctors to pay more attention to this issue.
Earlier it was reported that in the UK a patient with a brain tumor began to joke about operation time. For five hours, surgeons performed a complex operation “awake craniotomy”. They gave the patient a small dose of anesthetic and immersed him in a state of anesthesia, and woke him up an hour later. The speech therapist gave the patient tasks and recorded the work of the brain.