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© Queen’s Printer and Controller of HMSO 2002. All rights reserved.<br />

<strong>Health</strong> <strong>Technology</strong> Assessment 2002; Vol. 6: No. 30<br />

The medicines used to keep you asleep<br />

‘Imagine that when you have the operation you have been given a medicine to put you to sleep.<br />

Then you need to be kept asleep during the operation. There are two different medicines that<br />

could be used <strong>for</strong> this. Like all medicine used to keep you asleep during an operation they may<br />

both have some side-effects such as sickness [you may feel sick or actually be sick].’<br />

‘Medicine C’<br />

May cause sickness, either feeling sick or being sick. This seems to happen in about 7 out of<br />

10 patients. People are rarely actually sick after the first day, but some people may feel sick <strong>for</strong><br />

up to 2 days and sometimes <strong>for</strong> up to 4 days after the operation.<br />

‘Medicine D’<br />

May cause sickness, either feeling sick or being sick. This seems to happen in about 3 out of<br />

10 patients. People are rarely actually sick after the first day, but some people may feel sick <strong>for</strong><br />

up to 2 days and sometimes <strong>for</strong> up to 4 days after the operation.<br />

Scale<br />

Appendix 15<br />

Contingent valuation scenario <strong>for</strong><br />

maintenance of anaesthesia<br />

£25 £50 £75 £100 £125 £150 £175 £200 £225<br />

0 £250<br />

..................................................................................................................................... Or more than £250<br />

Reproduced from Elliott and co-workers, 33 by permission of Swedish Pharmacuetical Press.<br />

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