What If You Woke Up During Heart Surgery?
One second you are out cold. The next, you’re on the operating table. In the middle of heart surgery. Welcome to your most terrifying nightmare. What happens when anesthesia doesn’t work? Would you feel everything that was going on with your body? And why wouldn’t you be able to tell your surgeon you’re awake?
00:00 Out Cold
01:02 Types of Anesthesia
02:39 Anesthesia Awareness
04:01 Waking up During Surgery
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@Colsey
August 20, 2025 at 8:21 am
Literally one of my biggest fears was waking up during having my teeth removed as a kid. Good video as always
@pattyrubio3331
August 20, 2025 at 8:21 am
1:13 gulp
@ivanin_therichdev
August 20, 2025 at 8:21 am
2:57 mrbean 😂😂
@Mosafan-r4b
August 20, 2025 at 8:21 am
Dhdidhfhfvcb i hate that
@steetuna5175
August 20, 2025 at 8:21 am
❤🧡❤🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡❣💞💓💓💓💗💖💖
@brysunwarehimejr.9738
August 20, 2025 at 8:21 am
she ate that
@IrishGroyper456
August 20, 2025 at 8:21 am
New Fear Unlocked
Surgery.
@illdonproductions5503
August 20, 2025 at 8:21 am
I think I would have died
@OltiCurri
August 20, 2025 at 8:21 am
What the hell
@Movedchannels-t2p
August 20, 2025 at 8:21 am
That sometimes happen
@mananagarwal7002
August 20, 2025 at 8:21 am
I was in OT once where the surgeon was teaching me stuff as he was performing Laparoscopic cholecystectomy the patient woke up in the middle of procedure and it scared the shit out of me like that patient started screaming
@mahavatar80
August 20, 2025 at 8:21 am
Rygor 8
@JudeJomah
August 20, 2025 at 8:21 am
Well, I had the same but with my legs I have a cast right now and the first time they gave me the mask second time they gave me the shot on my other leg
@copperhead954
August 20, 2025 at 8:21 am
You cant wake up because your heart is disconnected
@wat3rmlnYT
August 20, 2025 at 8:21 am
1:22 AYOOOO? WHAT OLD MAN DOIN?
@DBLPLCRBX
August 20, 2025 at 8:21 am
They tryed to cover the bottom frount hill rom sticker but not on the right side.
@Usenrname_03
August 20, 2025 at 8:21 am
4:12 its like doctor strange ability 😂
@Funwithmrsuzair
August 20, 2025 at 8:21 am
Hi
@dylanhouser8593
August 20, 2025 at 8:21 am
It Would Be Safe To Say That It Would Break The Doctor's Heart.
@kraldalmatinu
August 20, 2025 at 8:21 am
1 in 19000… it so is not very rare…
@jamsteranimations5582
August 20, 2025 at 8:21 am
New fear unlocked: waking up during heart surgery
@frphxkaboom3008
August 20, 2025 at 8:21 am
they would dose you with versed and hope you didn't remember it….major lawsuit.
@Proud_banda
August 20, 2025 at 8:21 am
Don't show this video to heart patients 😢
Please I am begging you 😢
@danwahwah
August 20, 2025 at 8:21 am
New Fear Unlocked! – surgeries, but with more reasons for it to be scary.
@wonyoungism676
August 20, 2025 at 8:21 am
That would heart so bad
@LorenzoLopez-z9j
August 20, 2025 at 8:21 am
Wait how did he wake up without a heart or is it bc of his brain
@Joyousbean
August 20, 2025 at 8:21 am
During my grandmother’s c section, she woke up in the middle of the surgery. The surgery was actually led by junior doctors who was just learning the stuff while only one senior was watching. And when she woke up in the middle, they all panicked and they sew her in all weird ways, she said it was so painful even after days because it was swelling from inside. She still has those scars even after 4 decades.
@Arxonythe1st
August 20, 2025 at 8:21 am
One time I was having surgery in the nerve of my eggplant then I woke up I couldn't do anything about it I felt all the pain I thought I was dead
@kaitavarez
August 20, 2025 at 8:21 am
Why are the doctors do that it's so disgusting🤮
@melishthapa8456
August 20, 2025 at 8:21 am
I will be screaming my head off if I ever woke up If I
was doing surgery
@zacharyaxlleduna9391
August 20, 2025 at 8:21 am
I just noticed the patient is not wearing a blanket, and just naked
@robertdohn7091
August 20, 2025 at 8:21 am
Why did I see Hayden Christensen?
@danamahoney9475
August 20, 2025 at 8:21 am
You daiy
@Kyleplaysgames567
August 20, 2025 at 8:21 am
"You done yet."
@Naviwolffe
August 20, 2025 at 8:21 am
Fun fact! The original anesthesia was Anthrax but then the inventor decided he didn’t like it so he tried some more options and came up with chloroform!
@Naviwolffe
August 20, 2025 at 8:21 am
Fun fact! The first human heart transplant was preformed in South Africa by Christaan Barnaard in Groeter Schuur hospital!
@卡迪斯古德CADE
August 20, 2025 at 8:21 am
Why mr bean are doctor😢
@MayahDerazon
August 20, 2025 at 8:21 am
what’s really weird is when i had mouth surgery i was having a lucid dream but could not feel a thing and could hear a little bit going on but i felt fine and when i woke up my muscles were moving so i would love to know why that was happening 😅
@MayahDerazon
August 20, 2025 at 8:21 am
there is a 1-10% chance of this happening yall dw
@mrimpossiblewithabluefellhat
August 20, 2025 at 8:21 am
Jejei
@Canadian_gamer_1
August 20, 2025 at 8:21 am
How does he know?🤔
@Ramasani-ur6dr
August 20, 2025 at 8:21 am
1 IN 19000 CHANCE?!??!??!????
THERE ARE 8 BILLION PEOPLE ON EARTH?!??!!????? ☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️
@NadaHassan-x1c
August 20, 2025 at 8:21 am
It’s is so sad 😢
@Hussain-vg2om
August 20, 2025 at 8:21 am
Ed
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