Ava Morgan is a very nervous patient about to have gyno surgery. For this reason, anesthesiologist Clara decides to pre-sedate her in her room before she's taken to the OR so the induction doesn't scare her, and in surgery to give her the strongest safe dose of anesthetic to make sure she has no traumatic memories
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Clara enters the room and with her best gentle bedside manner, and premedicates Ava with a sedative...
Ava falls asleep under the effect of the sedative, and is still very sedated when she is being dressed for surgery in the OR ready for anesthesia induction...
With Ava so heavily sedated, anesthesia induction and prepping is easy...
The surgery is completed and Ava stitched up, then Ava is given oxygen to bring her round...
But something is wrong! Ava is not waking up! Clara decides that the strong dose of anesthetic will simply take longer to wear off, so decides to monitor her in the Recovery Room until she starts to show signs of consciousness.
But Clara has overdone the dose! In the Recovery Room, Ava goes into cardiac arrest! Clara calls the Crash Team and they fight to re-start her heart.
Finally, enough anesthetic wears off and after several shocks from the defibrillator, Ava's heart kicks back into rhythm.
Clara breathes a sigh of relief - she won't use such a hefty dose in future! Ava of course will wake up knowing nothing about her brush with death - and the team decide to keep quiet about it...
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