Hypnosis used in operations.

Cancer : l’institut Curie multiplie les opérations sous hypnose.                                                                 Curie institute increases it’s number of operations under hypnosis.

par Bruno Rougier mercredi 4 février 2015 09:35, mis à jour le mercredi 4 février 2015 à 10h05

Une ablation de la tyroïde sous hypnose à l’hôpital de Niort © MaxPPP. A tyroid removal under hypnosis in a hospital in Niort.

Depuis quelques mois l’Institut Curie propose aux patientes qui le souhaitent des opérations sous hypnose. A ce jour, 70 opérations ont déjà été réalisées dont des mastectomies, des ablations chirurgicales du sein, une opération qui peut durer une heure pendant laquelle, le patient se sent dans un état “de grande relaxation”. Reportage.                                                                           For several months the Curie Institute have proposed to their patients operations under hypnosis. Up to today, 70 operations have already been carried out including mastectomies, surgical breast removals, and others that can take up to an hour where the patient gets a feeling of a state of “great relaxation”.

Le jour de l’intervention, la patiente reçoit une anesthésie locale au site d’opération, par exemple au niveau du sein. Puis la personne qui pratique l’hypnose s’assoit à côté d’elle et lui parle doucement à l’oreille. Elle l’aide à se recentrer sur elle-même, à se détacher de tout ce qui l’entoure comme l’explique le docteur Aurore Marcou, médecin anesthésiste et hypno-thérapeute à l’Institut Curie. “Avec des suggestions verbales, on va aider le patient à retrouver cet état mental confortable. C’est par exemple, cet état dans lequel vous êtes lorsque vous prenez le métro et que votre esprit va se mettre dans un lieu agréable.”

On the day of the medical intervention, the patient gets a local anesthetic in the area of the operation, for example at breast level. Then the person is put under hypnosis by a practitioner speaking softly into his or her ear.This centres on a detachment from the surroundings as explained by Dr Aurore Marcou, a medical anesthetist and hypnotherapist in the Curie Institute. “With verbal suggestions to help the patient find a comfortable mental state. As an example, the state of mind where you are taking a metro journey and your spirit goes to a very agreeable place”.    

Roselyne a été opérée sous hypnose il y a quinze jours. On lui a enlevé une tumeur de quelques millimètres dans un sein… L’opération a duré un quart d’heure. Elle l’a abordé sans aucune appréhension. Roselyne : “C’est un état proche du moment dans lequel on est quand on va s’endormir. C’est une grande relaxation qui fait tomber l’angoisse.” L’hypnose n’est possible que pour les opérations d’organes pour lesquels on peut pratiquer une anesthésie locale, du type bras, jambe, œil ou sein. Mais elle est impossible pour des opérations sur des organes profonds comme le foie ou le cœur.

Roselyne was operated on under hypnosis a fortnight ago. A tumour was removed a few millimetres below the surface of a breast….The operation lasted only a quarter of an hour. She felt no apprehension. “It felt close to the moment just before falling asleep. It is a feeling of great relaxation which drops the anxiety levels”. Hypnosis is only possible for operations on organs that can take a local anesthetic, for instance an arm, leg, ear or breast.  But it is impossible on deep organs like the liver or the heart.

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Worked in the technical / engineering area as a Science Laboratory Technician and as an Aeronautics Engineer. The artistic side involves writing under the nom de plume of Billy Olsenn, his recently written play 'A Case of Wine' was staged by the players group Straight Make-Up at the 2012 Birr one act drama festival. It's next staging was in the one act circuit is in Cavan, at Maudebawn on Sat 10 Nov 2012. Then it was performed in the Bray, Co.Wicklow at the very popular one act festival in January 2013. Next play is FEAR. A dark tale about revenge on the cruel death of two pensioners by young thugs. Neighbours hatch a devious and dangerous plan to exact old-style revenge. Bill is a member of the Drama League of Ireland and his plays have been critically vetted and certified as original pieces of work by the DLI. Another literary project is that of commemoration of an aircraft crash on Djouce mountain in Wicklow in 1946. Bill wrote articles for the 50th, 60th and most recently the 70th anniversary, (12 Aug 2016) all were published in the Wicklow Times and ensured the survivors of the crash, all French Girl Guides, were not forgotten. Articles reproduced on this website. But mostly this site gives a more general European and specific French slant on popular and not so popular articles of French news, translated to English by the author. Each article is translated on a paragraph by paragraph basis so easy to read in either language and even possible to improve either language by comparison of the short English and French paragraphs. Amusez vous bien. The author is currently writing an easy to read technical aviation book centered around the Fokker 50. Another interest is that dealt with in another of Bill's websites www.realnamara.net, a Statue of the mother of God, Mary. It was erected in 1972 in Dublin, at the end of the Bull Wall near Clontarf, and my grandfather William Nelson, was the main instigator of that project. I give talks on the history of the statue and my grandfather's adventurous and dangerous life at sea. Technical assistance with each website is by J O'N.
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