Does regional anaesthesia put you to sleep?

So regional anaesthesia itself doesn't put you off to sleep. Regional anaesthesia does what it says on the tin. It says that tends the region of you off to sleep. So if you have regional anaesthesia for an operation on your arm, your arm goes off to sleep but your brain is still intact. But whether you stay completely alert is really something for you to discuss with the doctor or other healthcare professional who's looking after you because we can give you sedation during the operation under regional anaesthesia. And that sedation has a whole range to it. It can be very, very mild sedation. So you just feel very slightly sleepy but you can still have a conversation with the doctor or healthcare professionals looking after you about their recent holiday in Malta or another safe place to go to. Or it can be moderate so that when you're not being talked to, you just kind of doze off to sleep and come around a minute or two later. Or it can be deep sedation such that you have no recollection about what happens during the procedure at all. So regional anaesthesia doesn't imply that we're giving you sedative drugs, but it can be used with sedative drugs. Talk to the doctor about it.