I am having a knee arthoscopy done, do they stick a IV in your arm?

Question

I am having a knee arthoscopy done. i am scared of needles.

will they put an IV in my arm? i dont see its nessiary. someone plz tell me all about this and what to do and u shall surely get best answer :)

i mean tell me like what to do before u go n what they do (preparing) and stuff.

i am thirteen

a girl

and hate needles and pain

Answer 1

they never with me but if they are with you they fit the small tap into the vein in ya arm before you go in so all they,l do is put the iv to the tap count to 5 and ya out for the count

Answer 2

Your athroscopy will be done in day surgery.  They will put an IV in your arm.  Talk to the anesthesologist, and tell him/her you are afraid of needles.  They can use a small needle and syringe and deaden the area first.  After they deaden it, you wont even feel the IV needle.

After they do that, you will either be put to sleep or given a spinal, or epidural.

More than likely you will be put to sleep.  After they put the IV in, they will give you some medication to relax you.

After you are relaxed and on the OR table, they will put a mask over your mouth and nose, and give you oxygen.  As they are doing that, you will be given medications to make you sleep.  At this point you will be asleep.  They will put a tube into your mouth, which will go into your lungs to give the oxygen directly there.

The nurse will clean your leg off, and the surgeon will come into the room, and take your legs sterially from the nurse.  He will make a few small incesions in your leg, around the knee area.  This will allow him to put the scopes, and instruments into the area.  He will examine the area using his instruments, while watching everything on a video monitor.

After he has examined the area, and corrected the problem, he will remove the scopes, and instruments.  He will thn suture the incisions.

The anesthesologist will wake you up, by turning off the gasses he will be giving you and also giving you medications to reverse the other medications, if needed.

You will then be taken to recovery room, where you will be for approx. 45 minutes.  After that time, you will be taken to another area, where you will wait for approx. 1 hour, then you will be released to go home.

If they decide to do it under epidural or spinal, the procedure will be the same that the surgeon will do.  They will still put an IV in you and give you I dont care medicine.  They will place you on your side.  The anesthesologist will place deading medicine in your back and they will then put a needle into your spine.  When they get fluid back, they will then either put medicine in that area, which is a spinal.  If they decide to do it as an epidural, the same thing will happen, except they will put a catheter in through the needle, and remove the needle.  They will give you your medications to make you numb from your waist down through the catheter.  

After the surgery you will go to the recovery room and the anesthesologist will remove the catheter.  

Same as before about 45 minutes in recovery and then another hour in the other area, then you will go home.

Answer 3

like the guy above says...if they do, it's only a little pinch. and yes you are out and don't know what happened.  

Others told me that they were awake but heavily sedated and sort of watched.  

Answer 4

I had it done back in Nov. 2007and yes they gave me an Iv; when we got in the operating room my Dr. was telling me to move over 2 the other table and they was putting something in the Iv I was still sitting up on the table moving and I don't remember, anything after that, but them calling, my name 2 get me awake.If you don't look at the needle and turn your head it want be so bad because, I don't like them myself. I can't stand to watch them draw blood.

                                            A person who knows