Women come round faster Australian doctors report that, following surgery, women wake up from their anesthetized state more quickly than men do. Unfortunately, the researchers found that this early awakening also has its drawbacks.
Women are slower to recover from surgery, and are more prone to nausea, vomiting and pain than men.
The fact that women seem to wake up from an anesthetic faster had already been noted earlier. Thus, the doctors carried out a study comparing the recovery of 241 men and 222 women after surgical intervention. However, nearly a third of the female patients went through minor complications such as nausea or vomiting afterwards. Only half as many men complained of such complications. The doctors attribute these differences mainly to sex-linked hormones and the menstrual cycle.