“Do you get put to sleep for a nose job?”
I'm 23, and I'm planning to change the shape of my nose very soon because it's just way too big. Would I be put to sleep for the procedure?
5 Answers
Many plastic surgeries of the nose are done under local anesthesia and IV sedation. If the patient is very scared, then it's better geta.
Difficult question. If it was me, I'd go to sleep with a tube. Plastic surgeons like to make it sound simple, and since it is cash, they try to cut expenses, but in my opinion, anesthesia is not the place to cut corners.
Most likely, yes... You will be getting general anesthesia for a cosmetic procedure and it’s preferable to be under general anesthesia.
Your surgeon doesn’t want you moving during the procedure. You are looking to have a great cosmetic look following your operation. So a quiet and controlled operative field is desired. Also, it’s important to control your blood pressure. You want a normal blood pressure and not a high one; with a high blood pressure you bruise more. Remember, you want a beautiful cosmetic result. You’ll do great!!
Your surgeon doesn’t want you moving during the procedure. You are looking to have a great cosmetic look following your operation. So a quiet and controlled operative field is desired. Also, it’s important to control your blood pressure. You want a normal blood pressure and not a high one; with a high blood pressure you bruise more. Remember, you want a beautiful cosmetic result. You’ll do great!!
Yes, it is best to put you to sleep, called General Anesthesia, and while you are asleep, to insert a tube via your mouth into your airway called endotracheal intubation. This is to protect your airway, and help you breathe while the operation on your nose is in progress. There is no pain under General Anesthesia, and your breathing , blood pressure, pulse rate (heart rate), body temperature, oxygenation (pulse oximetry), and ventilation ( carbon dioxide concentration ) will be continuously monitored and recorded while the surgery is in progress.
After completion of the surgery, the general anesthetic will be turned off, and as you are about to wake up, the endotracheal tube will be removed, and you will continue your normal breathing thereafter. Your Anesthesiologist or Nurse Anesthetist will be with you during the surgical procedure, and will accompany you to the Recovery Room to make sure you are breathing well, and awake enough in the Recovery Room.
With best wishes.
Mahmood Tabatabai, MD, PhD
After completion of the surgery, the general anesthetic will be turned off, and as you are about to wake up, the endotracheal tube will be removed, and you will continue your normal breathing thereafter. Your Anesthesiologist or Nurse Anesthetist will be with you during the surgical procedure, and will accompany you to the Recovery Room to make sure you are breathing well, and awake enough in the Recovery Room.
With best wishes.
Mahmood Tabatabai, MD, PhD
Yes, a nose job is a fairly painful procedure and no surgeon would likely attempt it without the aid of general anesthesia.
