BIS Monitor during Surgery - Cosmetic / Plastic Surgery Message Board

annointed · 02-28-2004, 05:26 PM

Hi, I was just wondering has anybody had the BIS Monitor during their plastic surgery procedure?

The BIS Monitor is a special device that monitors a patient during general anesthesia surgery to signal the surgeon if the patients anesthesia has worn off. Therefore prompting the surgeon to administer more anesthesia immediately.

The BIS Monitor is very important being that there are now thousands of cases being reported of patients being awake during their general anesthesia surgery. Being that they are paralyzed, they are unable to move to signal the surgeon that they are feeling the pain. That's where the BIS Monitor comes in. Can you imagine what these patients have gone through? CAn you imagine yourself under general anesthesia getting a rhinoplasty procedure done and your anesthesia wears off? Can you imagine the most horrific and the most mortifying pain that you will feel when they break your nose bones and when they slice and dice and chisel and stuff your nose with packing? Can you imagine going through all this pain throughout your whole rhinoplasty procedure from beginning to the end which is probably about an hour to 2 hours. Can you imagine the pain?

That's why I will not have my rhinoplasty procedure or any other cosmeitc procedure without the BIS Monitor in place at my surgery. So my question is to anybody here on the board, has any one of you guys every had plastic surgery with the BIS Monitor monitoring status?

piecorp · 04-30-2004, 12:59 AM

I had a revision rhinoplasty with local anesthesia that lasted six hours. I had been addicted to vicodin for about a year so the pain meds barely had an effect on me. I was awake enough to have a conversation with the dr. and it really upset him because I was moving so much. That was one of the craziest experiences in my life, the pain was hard to describe- it was so intense I'm afraid it would be an injustice to put it into the same category as anything else. I've had general more times than I can count and never woke up, in fact it takes a while to wake up even after they stop administering the meds. Any certified anesthesiologist will be able to keep you sleeping, don't even worry about that for a second. My friend has been operating for nearly 40 years, never once has he had that problem.