During a general anesthetic, your consciousness is temporarily switched off. The respiratory drive and protective reflexes are also completely suspended. Twilight sleep (also known as analgosedation) takes away your fear, reduces your sensitivity to pain and makes you sleepy. Twilight sleep offers many advantages:
By combining different painkillers, the amount of stressful medication can be significantly reduced. They recover more quickly.
Side effects such as nausea are much rarer.
Serious side effects such as thromboses or embolisms are also rarer after twilight sleep than after general anesthesia.
After a twilight sleep, you can return home more quickly and also eat and drink again more quickly.
Patient satisfaction after twilight sleep is very high.