| 8. As a patient began to drift off to sleep, he entered into a phase of euphoria where he may become talkative and quite jolly. Gradually his anesthetic level becomes deeper and he enters the "excitement" phase of anesthesia. Here we see the operating crew restraining the patient from getting up or thrashing about during this phase. The notion that we have from Hollywood of patients being held down for surgery as they "bite the bullet" is a misnomer. They were actually held down for the induction of anesthesia, not for the surgery. |
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