Plastic Surgery Safety: Be Informed Before The Scalpel
Kanye West's mom's trip to the plastic surgeon turned fatal. Usher missed the Grammys because his wife suffered complications during a surgery in Brazil.
So you've made the decision; you are going to have surgery. You’ve met with your surgeon. You have a good idea what will happen during the operation. But how much do you know about the anesthesia?
Did you know, by the age of 50 most people have had at least three or four encounters with some form of anesthesia? Did you also know one in seven Americans will be getting plastic surgery in the next five years. And by the year 2015, 55 million plastic surgery procedures will be done annually.
Dr. Panchali Dhar, author of Before the Scalpel: What Everyone Should Know about Anesthesia stops by to fill us in on the risks and rewards of plastic surgery.
Dr. Panchali Dhar is an assistant professor of clinical anesthesiology and anesthesiologist at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center. She is also board-certified in internal medicine and anesthesiology.
In the book, Dr. Dhar demystifies the process and terms associated with anesthesia and arranges the information in an easy to understand topic-by-topic and takes you into the complicated, fascinating, cutting-edge world of anesthesia.
Dr. Dhar spoke to us about:
• Pain-relief options during child labor and delivery
• Facts to know before deciding on plastic and cosmetic surgery
• Why children are not just “small adults” when it comes to anesthesia
• How obesity adds risk to surgery and anesthesia
• The common fear of awareness during anesthesia
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Comments: 2
Very proud of my friend Dr. Dhar.
Her link appears on the 'Links' page on my web site.
If you could get everything* you wanted from general anesthesia for your cosmetic surgery without the risk of death, would 10 seconds of your surgeon’s time be worth risking your life?
*'everything' means not to hear, feel or remember your surgery
Ten seconds. That's the difference between a safer choice of anesthesia for you and general anesthesia for your surgeon.
Don't you think you deserve to be the one to make that choice?
If you choose to have cosmetic surgery, PK anesthesia is the safest achievable anesthesia.
So glad that this information is getting out to the public. So many people I know have had perfectly good surgeries, but their complaint is about anesthesia.
One of the biggest is nausea after the surgery. If the anesthesiologist knows that the patient is prone to nausea and vomiting for various reasons, pre-meds can be given to the patient so that the complication will not ensue. There are so many things an anesthesiologist must know before hand and it's up to the patient to tell him or her so that nothing gets in the way of a healthy recovery.