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Unrealistic outcomes are just emotional expectations, without the help of science they are just delusions!

Q:Do emotional appeals solve problems like they show in the movies and TV stories in extremely dangerous situations?

I recently saw in a movie that a person who was given some anesthetic drug by the bad people was awakened by emotional appeals, praying to GOD and severe shaking. That person woke up and fought with others and won a challenge too! Is this possible?

Krishna: NO! You have to take people to hospitals/doctors if they are ill, sedated or injured severely.

Emotional appeals and wishful thinking don't work!

When patients awaken from such a situation, they’re usually groggy and disoriented; it can take hours for a patient to become fully clearheaded again. It is not possible to win in such a situation.

Currently, there are no drugs to bring people out of anesthesia immediately. When surgeons finish an operation, the anesthesiologist turns off the drugs that put the patient under and waits for them to wake up and regain the ability to breathe on their own. This usually takes five to 10 minutes; patients are often bleary for at least an hour or two afterward.The drugs' effects can take a few hours to fully wear off. Anesthetic drugs can stay in your system for up to 24 hours.

Again the results depend on the physiology of a person, type of drug, dose given and several other factors.

This is because the longer exposure to anesthetic drugs requires a longer time to exhale the vapour drugs or to clear and metabolize the intravenous drugs.

Anesthesia can affect everyone differently, and it generally takes about an hour for the side effects to wear off—although the actual medicine may linger much longer. Drinking plenty of fluids, with permission from your doctor, can help you re-hydrate post-procedure, and may help flush excess waste out of your system.

You can take the help of recent science though to return, as soon as possible, to the level at which the patient was before giving the anesthetics or sedatives. Scientists found the effects of stimulants that could be used to bring patients out of general anesthesia much faster. One potential candidate is Ritalin (1), the drug commonly used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). In a study published online Sept. 20 (2011) in the journal Anesthesiology, the researchers show that giving anesthetized rats an injection of Ritalin brings them out of anesthesia almost immediately.

It’s like giving a shot of adrenaline to the brain. If replicated in humans, the findings could lead to new approaches that allow patients to regain lucidity in a matter of minutes rather than hours.

In the Anesthesiology study, anesthetized rats that were given Ritalin came to in an average of 90 seconds. Rats who did not receive Ritalin took 280 seconds to revive.

Movies and stories on TV try to exploit the emotional feelings of the viewers. They don't tell the truth. Just emotional appeal doesn't make you wake up from drug induced unconsciousness. It doesn't make you work immediately, leave alone win games and challenges.

You might feel happy when you watch such scenes because you get the ending you want - which is usually an over expectation and an unrealistic outcome.

But that doesn't happen in reality, at least not without the help of science.

Footnotes:

1. https://news.mit.edu/2011/ritalin-reverse-anesthesia-0922

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