Expert: Ronald Levy, M.D. - 7/9/2008

Question
You must be getting tird of my questions, surgery for BPH laser PVP scheduled for this wed adn you have been the only surce of info; so let me ask one more uestion....if you don't answer, fine, you have alredy been a TREMENDOUS help.  I can't do the inhalation general and they waffled about TIVA with fentanyl and propofol....my doc says that I can probably get by with oral meds; said to take 2 percoct (gave me an rx for 100-obviously a mistake) and for triazolam .25mg to take 1/2 hr before.........she sys it's going to be fairly brutl, but safer than anesthesia...any comments?????????///thanks

Answer
I don't understand what you mean by "cant't do general anesthesia". Why not? how about Spinal? You may be more stoic than I but I can tell you I would not want to have prostate surgery on just 2 Percocet! What does she mean by "safer than anesthesia". She is not an anesthesiologist so she doesn't know what safe is! Talk to the anesthesiologist.

Ronald Levy, MD
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
UTMB-Galveston