DMT as surgical anesthetic?

[mortuaryscience]

When people are made unconscious in operating rooms, there is a delicate balance between administering enough anesthesia to keep a patient from feeling pain, and between issuing so much that the patient dies. DMT seems to be able to render people unaware of their immediate surroundings in doses far lower than those that would permanently harm the user physically. I'm wondering if DMT would make a safer anesthetic than those that are currently used.

The only problem I can see is that perhaps sufficient physical stimulation, such as having a surgical scalpel cutting someone, might bring the patient back to consciousness. Do you think this would be a problem? If a patient were given enough DMT through an IV, do you think that there would be any chance of them waking during surgery?

 

[Durzo1258]

I'm pretty sure the patients screams could be registered on the Richter scale along with multiple after screams.

 

[perpetualdawn]

NOOOOO! Terrible idea! Unless you're OK with suffering with PTSD for the rest of your life.

 

[mortuaryscience]

Oh well, it seemed like a good idea.

 

[spacejunk]

Not so much

 

[KneelB4Doom]

You'd need The Flash to be the surgeon lol.

 

[Hexagon Sun]