Dr. Donald Avant Perry MD
Anesthesiologist | Pain Medicine
1922 Thomson Drive Suite D Lynchburg VA, 24501About
Dr. Donald Perry is an anesthesiologist practicing in Lynchburg, VA. Dr. Perry ensures the safety of patients who are about to undergo surgery. Anestesiologists specialize in general anesthesia, which will (put the patient to sleep), sedation, which will calm the patient or make him or her unaware of the situation, and regional anesthesia, which just numbs a specific part of the body. As an anesthesiologist, Dr. Perry also might help manage pain after an operation.
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AnesthesiologyAmerican Board of AnesthesiologyABA
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What are the odds of not waking up from anesthesia?
Without knowing any details of patient medical condition or the quality or experience of the anesthesia providers, one can only generalize, but the quoted serious complication rate for general anesthesia in healthy patients is about one in two hundred thousand. READ MORE
Does a colonoscopy hurt with sedation?
Anesthetists do a very good job of making colonoscopy under sedation a reasonable experience with no unpleasant recall. However, it is not a general anesthetic and a few patients may recall pain. Every attempt is made to make colonoscopy a safe and well tolerated procedure. READ MORE
How is anesthesia administered to child afraid of needles?
May vary due to age or anesthesiologist's preference, but generally in children with a needle phobia, they give him a sedative by mask and let the child go to sleep with gas by mask. IV is usually started after the child is fully asleep. READ MORE
Is it riskier for people who are overweight to go under anesthesia?
Mostly likely, your wife will have a regional block technique for a scheduled C-section. I have been performing regional blocks for awake and comfortable sections for 34 years. In my opinion, there would be no increased anesthetic risk. If your wife required a general anesthetic (unlikely), there would be no increased risk unless her weight was extremely obese such as 375 pounds. Unless she had other medical problems, even the morbidly obese would have an extremely small risk of major problems. Modern anesthesia for C-sections is extremely safe. READ MORE
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