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Expert: Ronald Levy, M.D. - 11/5/2009
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QUESTION: I was wondering would you please tell me: if a person get anesthetic to put them asleep for the doctors to perform a operation, then in recovery that person wakes up after the anesthetic wears off and then down the track that same person has to have anesthetic for another operation, does your body get use to the anesthetic the first time you had it?
P.S I asking you this question because I had an operation while I was young so they put me to sleep with anesthetic, but now I'm worried that if they give me anesthetic again I wont wake up from it.
Thanks
ANSWER: There is no tolerance to anesthesia so you need not worry. There are people who have had 10, 20 or more surgeries and they go to sleep and wake up like everyone else.
Ronald Levy, MD
Professor of Anesthesiology
UTMB-Galveston
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QUESTION: I was wondering would you please tell me: how does the person that is giving you anesthetic know how much to give you?
Thanks
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The initial estimate is usually based on weight but it is also the art of anethesia to know when you've given too much or too little. We monitor your vital signs and based on that we can tell what level of anesthesia you have.
Ronald Levy, MD
Professor of Anesthesiology
UTMB-Galveston
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