Plácido Domingo - inguinal hernia surgery. January 9, 1986

El tenor Plácido Domingo podrá volver a cantar dentro de seis semanas, según informaron ayer fuentes de la clínica Dexeus, de Barcelona, donde el tenor fue operado ayer tarde de una doble hernia inguinal. La operación duró un par de horas y se le intervino una "hernia inguinal predominante directa y un pequeño saco herniano, en el lado derecho, y una hernia inguinal directa en el lado izquierdo".El proceso de la anestesia, iniciado a las cuatro de la tarde, se prolongó durante 25 minutos. Al tenor le fue aplicada anestesia epidural para evitar que la intubación propia de la anestesia general pudiera lesionarle las cuerdas vocales, como informó ayer este diario. La anestesia epidural, aplicada mediante una inyección en la columna vertebral, afecta tan sólo desde el tronco hacia abajo. Este sistema se aplica normalmente a las parturientas. Además de la aplicación de la anestesia, el cantante fue adormilado con sedantes.
El parte médico facilitado a la prensa en el Instituti Dexeus describió los siguientes hallazgos quirúrgicos: en el lado derecho, una hernia inguinal predominantemente directa y un pequeño saco herniario indirecto; en el lado izquierdo, una hernia inguinal directa.

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[31operafan]

Geez. If I had to have an operation like that, I would ask to be put to sleep. :/ There is NO WAY I would be awake for that.

[31operafan]

I find it strangely ironic that all three of the Three Tenors had cancer at some point in their lives: Carreras had leukemia, Pavarotti had pancreatic cancer (he was the only one who died), and just recently, Domingo was treated for colon cancer. Wow. :/ I think Domingo was the luckiest of all; his cancer was at a very early stage, so it only took one operation to cure it. No radiation or chemotherapy was necessary. Thank God.

[31operafan]

I seriously don't think he was asleep for his colon cancer surgery. Since it was laparoscopic and required only a small inscision (this is one of the reasons why he recovered quickly from that), the doctors probably thought it wouldn't hurt to just give him a local. That has much, much less health risks than a general anesthetic.

[31operafan]

@Fehlzeiten He is brave. :) I envy him; I can't STAND the idea of being wide awake for a big operation like that. I would have to be asleep. He probably knew that they place a tube down your throat after you fall asleep. That may have irritated his vocal cords and damaged his voice had he decided to go under a general anesthetic. And he wouldn't recover as quickly. It would take him more than six weeks.

[Placidani1]

Thank you !

[Fehlzeiten]

What a brave guy!

[31operafan]

I knew they gave him an epidural anesthetic. That's probably what they gave him for his colon cancer operation. If he had a general anesthetic, he probably would've stopped singing by now.