Aspiration During Major Surgery

I'm sure you had to sign something saying you were aware of the risks? This is always a risk. 

I wish you the best recovery. Concentrate on your recovery. Worry about all this other stuff later. It's bad for your well being and recovery. 

Just my thoughts. 

Iv logged online to make this easier let me tell you my storry and then my thoughts on your topic. 

So i mangled my hip almost ten years ago for the 7 years previous to my hip replacement i could hardly walk. I have Ankolysing spondalytis not a single person considered telling me or asking me abotu hip replacements till one really good physio was up front with me. he then got moved as apparently it wasnt his job to tell me that!  one xray later by my Rhummi and im contact with the BEST surgeon in Britain and the guy who is more or less responsible for modern European techniques.  he ends up with his own health issues my surgery is rescheduled twice i end up with the best surgeon he has trained and him on skype on the day. 

im prepped im numb and they go "oh we havnt done a pregnancy test" que attempt to p! im not sedated unconscious just slightly dopy, my choice. an hour into it i can feel my left leg im aware of everything being said im aware of a panic. my left leg is getting sore as all my weight is on it, i can move my foot  completely, they try to fill me with more drugs i become more awake (apparently i do not metabolise morphine well i end up like a bouncey ball and chatty) by an hour and a half in im aware of not the pain or feeling of the surgery but of everything thats happening im 100% aware of the saws and drills.  i get pumped full of fluid and badly need to p for the next 7 hours.  the surgery takes longer because apparently my joint was almost non existant and much smaller space than expected.  

by the time im back at recovery i can move my operated foot the top is still fairly numb but the rest of me is dopey but fully back to normal. As time goes on i am more and more aware of every ltitle detail of that surgery. 

the point to my story is.. i now stuffer very bad ptsd and anxiety and flash backs but im dealing with it slowly. i wish id got the surgery done years ago and anyone would have listened to me and by the time i did get to p i flooded the bed pan and the bed and the hottest doctor in the entire world walked around the corner to deal with me lol! I also had to face my doped out grandad going into get his hip done the day after me same hospital he told the staff he was fine because id sent him videos of my surgery (i didnt... i didnt have my phone in surgery) and had to face the panic attack of the head of surgery trying to interview me the day after surgery wilst having a panic attack because my dad turned up. i was continued to be given morphine after saying i didnt want it due to the side effects i get i continued to throw up with it talk crap and completed a thousand levels of bejewlled one night...  we also had a room of four with a lady with Alzheimers who we had to basically look after as her team said she could go home and the nurses were getting frustrated as it was putting her into a loop getting her hopes up. i also had next to me someone who was taking laxatives deliberately, picking at food being a pain in the arse talking on skype to america loudly all night and eventually pooping herslef as she couldnt acutally walk fast enough and causing the nursing staff to have to clean her every few hours.  I have a low immune system and being next to someones poop is not my plan in life lol

my point is i lost a lot of blood my surgery didnt go to plan my recovery took so much longer due to muscle changes but if someone said you can get the other one done tomorrow but it has to be the same team id jump at it. i knew the risks, im not perfect now i have issues but id fully recommend that team to anyone if i truly lost as much blood as the amount of fluid they put in me then  they saved my life and im grateful.

there is always normally a xray machine in a operating theater for making sure that the hip is in the correct place if you watch the youtube videos *you may not want to in your current mental state) youll see that most of the hip ops are guided by xray any op involving a bone or a joint is classed as a "clean room" compared to a dirty operating theatre for say anything with the gut so the likely hood is you would never have left that room but there will be notes for your op that you can see. 

I am so grateful that i have a much better quality of life now  its socially or work not greatbt i would never cause myself more stress and suffering trying to look into who was to blame for  whoever knicked the blood vessel i have a hip i can walk otherwise id be imobile, in a wheel chair or given up on life by now (im 30) 

I wasnt walking 100% unaided until almost week 12 due to my muscles everyones recovery is different, the success of every operation depends on your team but also just your body. i wouldnt be looking into going down a legal route your team saved your life but if its affecting your mental health so much you could ask them to explain the surgery more to you. 

concentrate on what your going to do when you can get out, the first few weeks can be hell trapped with yoru own thoughts and getting annoyed at progress. you have that new hip now and its a world of opportunity. a legal situation will likely intensify your depression and anxiety and it may at the end not actually make you feel any better.  

im not beinig unsympathetic i have different circumstances but i 100% understand how you feel and i am sending you all my love and if you need to talk or winge or moan or shout just private message me :-) ill be here anytime xxx

As your aware major surgery and anaesthesia come with risk hence the extensive consent form I signed three weeks ago basically telling me I was at risk of death. I am a 51 year old female three weeks post op.

Your medication may be making you loose your appetite.

You should still be using your sticks in order to fully recover you need to follow all your post op instructions.

This is my second hip i had a poor appetite a different anaesthetic. Post op my pain relief was awful I was sick these are all normal.

I have a trolley zimmer for the house  and I am outside walking with my sticks.

Evertday I walk a little further.

As the other person said concentrate on your recovery see your Gp if feeling low.

It takes a year usually for anyone to recover fully from such major surgery.

Although our bodies all recover at a different pace.

Take care and I wish you a speedy recovery x 

There is no room for sarcasm or cheek therefore I am going to remove myself and recover at my own leisure.

Good luck to everyone 

Yours symptoms of lethargy, no appetite and pain when walking are all the signs I had before I was diagnosed with a joint infection following my THR surgery.

Perhaps you should have your CRP (infection markers)levels checked by your GP just to be sure.

Suzie

Sorry to see you are continuing to have a slow recovery following your surgery.

I worked as a Bank Nursing Assistant in an orthopaedic theatre in a Hampshire Hospital over 5 years ago. There are x-ray machines in the theatre, or at least on the department, so they would not of taken you from the room during the operation. It has to be as sterile as possible in there, so the x-ray machine would have to have come in and be covered with sterile plastic before going near you. Any exposure to contamination while undergoing bone surgery puts the patient at extreme risk of infection. I hope this might put your mind at ease somewhat and I hope you get satisfactory answers from the surgeon.