Those who wake up after an operation are often disoriented. Older people in particular can slip from anesthesia into a dangerous clouding of consciousness. Special prevention programs at clinics are intended to prevent this.
One day after his heart operation, Helmut Lutz completely lost control: “I kept seeing a man in front of me who wasn’t even there. I had deep dreams in which I was under water or in a spider’s web. And when I was mine When I visited the woman, I begged her to call the police: “They want to kill me here.” After the then 70-year-old began to riot in the intensive care unit, he was tied to the bed with the consent of the relatives to protect himself and others to protect against careless attacks. Lutz only got better after four days. He was able to leave the intensive care unit and a short time later also the clinic.
Source: Stern
