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What anaesthetic technique was offered to you?
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What anaesthetic technique was offered to you?

This is Brian, a survivor of two iliac and an abdominal aneurysm, who takes us through his journey of an open aneurysm repair. This video discusses the anaesthetic technique chosen for Brain's surgery and how the drugs impacted him.

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Anesthetic wise, do you remember anything about being told what kind of anesthetic you were having and anything about the experience? Well yeah, I was told I was having an epidural and I was told that there could be side effects, some sort of strange reactions and believe me I had hallucinations. I, you know, I look back now and I think what on earth was going on. There was a block of my life from the sort of Wednesday when I had the operation to till about Sunday and I have absolutely no idea of what reality was going on at that time. There were weird hallucinations, it was really, you know, I can remember some of them now. I even sent texts to my wife, you know, in the middle of the night and, you know, and they're still on my phone, I can see them, you know, and it, but yeah, it was a really weird, I mean, I knew something like that was possible, but I hadn't quite appreciated how much, maybe, I don't know how exceptional I was in that respect but yeah it was the thing that has left it the biggest impact on me now I think you know I can remember some of the weird things going on there and later I saw one of the nurses who I knew I had been particularly difficult with and I was able to sort of of apologized to him afterwards, you know, and he said, yeah, it happens.

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