When you have gall bladder surgery what do they give you to knock you out?
Basically wondering what is used to put you to sleep during gall bladder surgery.
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Cholecystectomy (gall bladder removal) requires general anesthesia, regardless of whether it is done open or laparoscopically.
There are many different drugs used in general anesthesia, and each anesthesiologist does things his/her own way.
A typical general anesthetic might include:
midazolam (pre-op sedation and amnesia); propofol (induction = going off to sleep); succinylcholine or rocuronium (paralytics – to relax the muscles and facilitate breathing tube placement); fentanyl, morphine or hydromorphone (pain relief); neostigmine and glycopyrrolate (reversal of paralytic drugs).
That would be for a simple anesthetic in a healthy person. People with bad hearts or lungs may need different drugs, and sometimes we need to use additional medication to conrol blood pressure or heart rate, or other things. We also take over breathing throughout the operation.