More than a year and a half ago, Daniel Gisler from Remetschwil broke his tibia and fibula in a domestic accident. The 55-year-old was operated on at the KSB at the time. As usual with such a serious injury, he was given metal plates, nails and screws to repair the broken bones.
Because parts of these plates and screws now bothered him, Gisler wanted them removed. But he did not want to be operated under anesthesia as usual. Before the operation, Gisler put himself into a trance.
“This is indeed an extraordinary wish,” said Karim Eid, head of orthopedics/traumatology at the KSB in a statement. “As an innovative hospital, we wanted to give patients this experience, especially because we were curious about whether and how the hypnosis method works.”
Normally, a procedure of this type would require general or at least local anesthesia. “The leg is opened over a length of ten centimeters up to the tibia and fibula,” according to a statement from the KSB.
If Gisler had felt too much pain during the operation, the surgeons would have been willing to continue the procedure under local anesthesia. If that hadn’t worked, it would have been canceled. But it didn’t come to that.
Gisler did feel a pulling sensation during the cut, pain with the destruction of the capillaries and various pressure situations on his lower leg, “but otherwise everything was quite bearable,” he explained in the statement. He too noticed the communications in the operating room, but ignored them as best he could.
Forty minutes before the start of the operation, the orthopedic patient put himself into hypnosis via audio recordings. His goal: the state of Esdaile. It is a very deep state of hypnosis, which is characterized, among other things, by the fact that the hypnotized person must be pain-free. It is named after the Scottish surgeon James Esdaile, who put his patients into a trance before operations in the 19th century.
“Apart from slight groans and occasional jerks, the operated person remained largely calm, his eyes were always closed,” the KSB continued in a statement. After the operation, he said the most painful thing for him was sewing up the wound at the end. His conclusion: he would have an operation performed in the same way again in this context.
The surgical team was amazed at the powerful effect of hypnosis, especially because the patient still required a lot of painkillers during his first procedure. The deputy chief physician in charge of the operation, Steven Maurer, was also surprised that the patient lost relatively little blood during the procedure without a tourniquet.
An hour after the operation, Daniel Gisler left the hospital again – on foot. However, surgery under hypnosis is not common practice at the KSB. “Classical anesthesia remains indispensable for procedures,” explains Karim Eid. (fan/Aargauerzeitung)
source: watson
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