Question

[Deadpangod3]

I'm not going to turn this into a armchair therapist thread and get right to the question since google isn't working for me at the moment for some reason,

Is there anything bad that can go wrong during knee surgery?

[The Destroyer]

Depends what type of knee surgery. Probably, and your chances are increased if Jeb is there.

I don't really know.

[Deadpangod3]

Like a surgery to either fix or remove some circular thing between the bones,

[vetrox]

Surgery always carries risks.

These risks are reduced the healthier you are.

I dont know about healthcare in your country but from what I've experienced is that modern medicine is pretty safe. Chances are your knee surgery is just a procedure to follow for your surgeon and chances are he has done this particular procedure multiple times.

I feel the biggest risk is infection afterwards.

Take the meds they give you. Have any dressings changed when they are supposed to and attend any physical theropy.

Its normal to feel very nervous whne you're being wheeled down to theatre but once the anasthetic is in your system, you play the "FIGHT THE ANASTETIC" game. Then you wake up...you dont remember falling asleep. Or if its local anesthetic (i really need to learn how to spell that) I like to be able to see whats happening cos its really interesting!

[dudester28]

Well, you are at risk of having the wrong body part operated on.

Yep that actually happens.

[Sirrobert]

Like a surgery to either fix or remove some circular thing between the bones,

The meniscus?

There is always some risk in surgery, but a meniscus surgery is pritty standard stuf, so generally safe.

Knees are pritty simple, not much there that they could screw up.

Unles you live in some backwater country where the docter is just some dude with a knife, you won't have to worry about losing your leg

If you get local anesthetic, you can even see what they are doing. Some docters will even talk to you while they work, very interesting. Also pritty surreal, since you can SEE they are cutting in your leg, but as far as you can feel, it's made of plastic

[lajoswinkler]

Don't worry about the general anaesthesia, before you are given the gas mixture, you're being injected with a sedative to calm you down, and it's easy to forget everything that has happened in that period because the brain might skip the permanent memory storing procedure.

I doubt you'll receive general anaesthesia. It's just a knee surgery, probably laparoscopic method because it's so common these days.

Relax and enjoy the view. Ask the surgeon to talk you through it, you might learn some anatomy...

[Nuke]

worst thing that can happen is you die.

no actually thats probibly not the worst. there is that thing where the anesthesiologist gives you the paralytic but not the pain killer, so you can feel every slice and dice. that would suck.

also flesh eating bacteria.

look on the bright side, if the latter 2 happen to you, you can always file a malpractice suit.

Well, you are at risk of having the wrong body part operated on.

Yep that actually happens.

another thing you can sue them on.

Edited December 11, 2013 by Nuke

[swiftgates24]

worst thing that can happen is you die.

Way to brighten up their day

[lajoswinkler]

worst thing that can happen is you die.

no actually thats probibly not the worst. there is that thing where the anesthesiologist gives you the paralytic but not the pain killer, so you can feel every slice and dice. that would suck.

also flesh eating bacteria.

look on the bright side, if the latter 2 happen to you, you can always file a malpractice suit.

another thing you can sue them on.

Now why would anaesthesiologist do that? General anaesthesia pushes you into deep sleep and standard chemicals are used.

Yes, the worst and possible outcome of every operation is death, but for knee surgery that's a highly unlikely outcome.

[Canopus]

I guess it also depends where you are getting your surgery. But i would't have to much fear.

[Sirrobert]

Now why would anaesthesiologist do that? General anaesthesia pushes you into deep sleep and standard chemicals are used.

Yes, the worst and possible outcome of every operation is death, but for knee surgery that's a highly unlikely outcome.

Actually, full anesthetea consists of multiple components. One to bring you to sleep and paralize you, and one to make sure you don't feel pain. It does happen sometimes that they forget the one that blocks pain, or don't use enough. The result is that you are entirely paralized, but you still feel everything.

The paralization would mean you have no way to signal the doctors that you can feel them cutting into you. So basicly you'll be awake during the entire operation.

Fortunatly these things are extremely rare.

It also happends that the entire mix is correct, but patients simply wake up during the surgery.

Nothing to worry about during a knee surgery though. They'll just sedate the leg

[Deadpangod3]

It's not me that was having surgery, it was my brother, he died...

JUST KIDDING!!

I had to do it lol

I still don't get how he wasn't feeling anything when he got home,

They had to remove part of this thingy between his bones, and he even had some pictures to show me, which I couldn't really distinguish anything in, but apparently they have to remove your knee cap during knee surgery. How is that even possible? I thought the knee cap was part of the bone itself?

I was dragged away from my ksp and enslaved as his servant the rest of the day, wasn't fun...

Though he is a jerk at times I'm glad he's ok

[Sirrobert]

Nope, the knee cap is actually a lose bone held in place by tensils. They can just move it.

Fun fact: babys are born without a knee cap. It doesn't grow until a few years after birth.

And if they had to remove something between the bones, it's most definitly the miniscus. So he's definitly going to feel alot better after the surgery than before Miniscus injurys suck donkey balls

[Deadpangod3]

Nope, the knee cap is actually a lose bone held in place by tensils. They can just move it.

Fun fact: babys are born without a knee cap. It doesn't grow until a few years after birth.

And if they had to remove something between the bones, it's most definitly the miniscus. So he's definitly going to feel alot better after the surgery than before Miniscus injurys suck donkey balls

Miniscus sounds familiar,

My brother said they removed part of the center so it now looks like a u drawn by a toddler