A 55-year-old Swiss man went under the knife again because he was bothered by metal plates and screws that had been inserted after surgery for a complicated fracture. What is special about the procedure is that the patient avoided anesthesia and instead hypnotized himself.
Daniel Gisler had an accident at home about 1.5 years ago in which his tibia and fibula were broken. To repair the bones, doctors had to insert metal plates, nails and screws. He recently had parts of these pieces of metal removed because he felt them in his body.
Doctor: “We were curious whether it worked”
Normally, a patient is placed under general anesthesia for such a procedure. But the 55-year-old wanted to do it without anesthesia and instead put himself into a trance. Doctors at the Baden Cantonal Hospital finally fulfilled this “extraordinary wish”, as head doctor of the orthopedics/traumatology department, Karim Eid, reported. “As an innovative hospital, we wanted to give patients this experience, especially because we were curious about whether and how the hypnosis method works,” says the doctor.
In a video on YouTube, the patient and doctors explained how they experienced the special operation:
Normally, general anesthesia or at least local anesthesia is used for this type of surgery – the leg had to be opened over a length of four inches up to the tibia and fibula, the hospital said.
Esdaile’s condition is intended to be pain-free
Instead, Gisler hypnotized himself using audio recordings to put himself into the so-called Esdaile state. “It is a very deep state of hypnosis, which is characterized, among other things, by the fact that the hypnotized person must be pain-free,” the clinic explained.
“I felt something during the operation, for example the cut,” says the 55-year-old about his experience. “After that it became very bearable again.” Other than mild groaning and occasional jerking movements, the operated person remained largely calm and his eyes were closed at all times, the surgical team said. What he would have found most painful was stitching up the wound at the end.
Patient left the hospital an hour after the procedure – on foot!
Ultimately, the doctors were surprised that the patient had lost relatively little blood. Just an hour after the procedure, Gisler was able to leave the hospital again – on foot, as the clinic emphasized.
Source: Krone
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