Does anyone get their anesthesia reports?

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cider8
cider8 Member Posts: 832
edited January 2015 in Surgery - Before, During, and After

I was just thinking about some of the studies that look at types of anesthesia in relation to recurrence. I've gotten many of my reports (surgical, pathology, scans), but never anesthesia. Are these just as easy to get? Does anyone feel like it's worthwhile to get, even if you've had no issue with anesthesia

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  • voraciousreader
    voraciousreader Member Posts: 7,496
    edited December 2014

    Cider....I make my own notes of what I get. With the DH who is very complicated, I get the anesthesia operating notes which includes a graph.....tells exactly what he gets, for how long and records his vitals.

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  • SpecialK
    SpecialK Member Posts: 16,486
    edited December 2014

    cider - this info should be in your facility medical records.  If you go to the hospital medical records department they can copy any part of the file you ask for, you just sign a release, and occasionally there is a nominal charge but they usually make the copies for you on the spot. 

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  • voraciousreader
    voraciousreader Member Posts: 7,496
    edited December 2014

    special...hospitals are now permitting patients to enter the portal and look at their records! If you want copies or discs... If your physician requests it on your behalf...you don't need to pay!

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  • SpecialK
    SpecialK Member Posts: 16,486
    edited December 2014

    voracious - depends on the hospital - I have had breast cancer related surgery in three different hospitals locally - one has a patient portal, two don't (yet, anyway), so I go old-school and walk in and ask to have them printed, but I live only a few miles down the road so its easy.

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  • besa
    besa Member Posts: 1,088
    edited December 2014

    When I have surgery (and at this point I have had many) I always request a complete copy of all of my medical records. This includes all anesthesia records. As SpecialK said you can just request a copy. The HIPAA laws allow us to get all of our medical records . If you are just interested in the anesthesia records I see no reason why you can't just request those. My experience with medical portals in the hospitals near me is that the information included there is VERY limited and not nearly complete. I could not see my anesthesia records through the hospital portal.

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  • Tomboy
    Tomboy Member Posts: 3,945
    edited December 2014

    ....I always have to request everything, and sign for it. I have been doing that pretty much all along. they finally did do a patient portal at my place, done through a third party who wont guarantee your privacy, or maybe who can see it. i signed up, but all it has is a list of my medications, doctors, and vitals! Duh! i know all that already, so i reneged on having mine, and closed it up. What did make me begin to be very curious about anaesthesia, is when i had my port out. I had wanted to donate some blood a couple days before, cause i am one who always gets the complications! And just in case they tore my SCV, I wanted my blood ready! They seemed startled that I wanted to do that, said the incidence of aids or hepatitis was very low (thats NOT what I was worried about). On the back of the consent form you are allowed to ask for your own blood to be drawn and ready. so, when i saw the doc , they did draw some blood to test, and said I couldn't, because my hemoglobin was too low! When i got home, I looked at all my previous blod draws, and my hemoglobin was NEVER LOW!!! ever! for the last two years. What got me curious, is that when I was in the pre~surgury room, they went to hang a bag of fluids, and the nurse ~guy said, "Hmmmm... lactated ringers.... good ol' lactated ringers.... " So i asked him, "i thought it was regular saline?", and he said they asked for lactated ringers. So a couple days after, I remembered to look it up. Interesting stuff. I will go and look in all my bookmarks to find it, but you can look for your selves, Lactated ringers should not be used in women with breast cancer, because it can increase risk of recurrence by ten~fold. i think i found it by following some links on wikipedia. I was outraged, but i still haven't figured out how to get exactly what I was given, i got the op report from that day, but it says nothing about what i was given. it just alerted me the way he said it, "HMMMM", like it wasn't usual. because sometimes I do think my place is trying to kill me, because i ask A LOT of questions....

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  • Beatmon
    Beatmon Member Posts: 1,562
    edited December 2014

    I did not know that about Lactated Ringers being dangerous for recurence. But, I do think you can find it on your itemized bill. ....I have to go to a different dept. when I request a copy of that to send into Aflac. I also had to explain to the MR people that the questionnaire that you fill out for anesthesia is not the anesthesia record of the surgery....which I also needed for filing with Aflac. Fortunately, I had worked as an RN in the hospital and was very familiar with the electronic medical record.

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  • Amoc1973
    Amoc1973 Member Posts: 158
    edited January 2015
    I'm an anesthesia provider & LR is used as it most closely matches your own fluid in your body. To much saline can lead to problems. LR is usually avoided with certain illnesses such as renal failure as it has electrolytes. I've never heard of LR causing recurrence. It's used routinely with cancer pts. Let us know where u came across that info. I'd like to read it. Thanks
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  • Tomboy
    Tomboy Member Posts: 3,945
    edited January 2015

    ...i will try to find my source of that info, and get bac to you soon. i think i started with wikipedia, an clicked on some foot notes. i have been very busy, and it will probably be a day or so.

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  • Bounce
    Bounce Member Posts: 574
    edited January 2015

    2010 research. Can anyone find something more recent?

    "..we discuss the possibility that it may be unwise to use lactate-containing i.v. solutions (such as lactated Ringer's or Hartmann's solution) in cancer patients, given the dramatic metastasis-promoting properties of L-lactate."

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC304761...

    "Finally, given the pro-metastatic activity of L-lactate, its medical use in cancer patients should be restricted. However, nearly every oncology surgeon worldwide uses "lactated Ringer's" (which contains 28 mM L-lactate) as an intravenous (i.v.) solution in cancer patients, before, during and after tumor excision and possibly during the entire extended post-operative hospital stay. Based on our current studies, the use of "lactated Ringer's" in cancer patients may unnecessarily increase their risk for progression to metastatic disease. Thus, oncology surgeons may wish to re-consider using "lactated Ringer's" solution in cancer patients."

    Bold formatting added by me. I am beginning to understand why some women lose faith in their doctors, turn their backs on conventional medicine and go towards alternative medicine.

    May we all be healthy with our doctors' help and despite our doctors' help.

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  • Tomboy
    Tomboy Member Posts: 3,945
    edited January 2015

    Bounce! Perfect! You found it! At least one of them. I love what you said in italics, I second you..

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