Mattias Desmet, professor at Ghent University, claims on InfoWars to have seen open-heart surgery on patients under hypnosis without anesthetics

Mattias Desmet, professor at Ghent University, claims on InfoWars to have seen open-heart surgery on patients under hypnosis without anesthetics from belgium

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  1. The man is a psychologist. Not a medical doctor. There has been heart surgery that used hypnosis but there has been no reliable mention anywhere of OPEN heart surgery.

    edit: it’s petty but man, his accent is pretty funny.

  4. I would love that at that precise moment they brought up a hypnotist and a machine capable of giving safe but painful electric discharges, and that he was asked to showcase his assertions. It would’ve been so funny.

  6. UGent should really not let this guy talk like that. Misinformation is a real problem and not to be packaged as freedom of expression

  10. At least we’ll be saving taxpayer’s money on anaesthesia when it’s his turn for surgery… Because he’ll volunteer, right? After these claims?

  14. Just one question? Did he start wearing glasses after or before he saw it with his own eyes? Important to know, I think!

    I know people who are awake during brain operations and even play an instrument as part of the monitoring during said surgery. And I know nothing about what else would be possible to be honest. But when it comes from such “show” I automatically “press X to doubt everything he says”.

    So, dumb me who wants to know if that would be possible tried a Google search. Finding nothing about that for such operations, instead found this in another article about an 82-year-old that have had a (different) surgery under hypnosis:

    Nonini, an anesthesia and resuscitation specialist:

    “However, hypnosis is not practicable for all types of procedures,” Nonini clarified. “Certainly, it is not possible for open-heart surgery or surgery involving the opening of the chest, sternum or abdomen, while it is fine when intervening percutaneously, as in the case of implants and replacements of defibrillators, pacemakers, aortic valves.”

    So: the specialist who performs similar surgeries says it’s not possible while a psychologist at the university “saw it”. (edited such to similar)

  16. BANNED VIDEO

    Right here, for everyone to see the utter BS. I wish it was banned so we don’t need to subject ourselves to it.

  17. I’m a clinical perfusionist, this means I operate the heart-lung machine during open heart surgery.

    I call Bullcrap from the highest shelf.

    this would never pass thru any ethical commission in any hospital. and here is why:

    -Cutting thru a chest bone (sternotomy) is 1 of the most painful things that can happen to you.

    -patiënts need to be totally paralyzed because breathing hinders the surgeon. It’s a great mistake to paralyze a patient but don’t let him sleep.

    -Patiënts are often cooled to 32°C-34°C to lower oxygen demand. An awake persons Brian uses to much oxygen which holds a great risk of Brian damage

    -during heart-lung bypass the lungs are completely deflated, patient is paralyzed and the heart is arrested, to minimize oxygen demand and protect the heart muscle.

    -during bypass we allow CO2 to rise to enhance cerebral perfusion. with a patient awake this would induce a small headache and a higher respiratory drive.

    there are many more reasons why patients require to be fully anesthetized during open heart surgery.

    there are minimal invasive heart procedures that are done via a large blood vessel in the groin. These procedures are often done under mild sedation. It might be possible to do these under hypnosis, but I’ve never seen it and hypnosis isn’t my area of expertise.

    Desmet might have seen these but definitely not open heart surgery.

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    Or the OR team played a very cruel joke on Desmet when he was visiting for an open heart surgery. (but OR is of limits for this kind of visitors)

  21. Deze kerel wordt nog steeds serieus genomen door mensen uit mijn omgeving. Was tijdens ‘20 al een soort baken en steun voor mensen die het “narratief” (aka de werkelijkheid) niet aankonden. Elke keer die kerel aan het woord was ging mijn bullshitdetector diep in de rooie. Die kerel doet niks anders dan de kar voor het paard spannen en de werkelijkheid op zijn kop zetten om toch maar slim of relevant te lijken. En mensen (inclusief sommigen die ik graag heb, waar ik “fan” van ben of was) vallen ervoor. Ik word woest van die kerel, nu al bijna 2 jaar.

  22. Sure you can make placing a tattoo painless using hypnosis, but I sincerely doubt they’ll risk a person coming out of trance in the middle of open hearth surgery.

    Also I love the comparison between a state of hypnosis (which requires constant guidance and immense concentration) and the media reporting about covid. Next thing you know he starts rambling about subliminal messages on tv…

  24. Oke dit is letterlijk ontslag waardig en betekend dat we verplicht zijn door al zijn onderzoek te gaan opzoek naar plagiaat en andere problemen

  25. **Ik heb nog les gekregen van deze kwezel.** Ik werd toen al ZO kwaad van de complete nonsens die hij aan het rondspuien was, dat ik een mail heb gestuurd naar de faculteit (zonder enige respons). Dit was 8-10 jaar geleden, ongelooflijk dat er nog altijd niets mee gebeurd is.

    Hij is ook een complete Big Pharma conspiracy theorist. Niet dat Big Pharma brave communicantjes zijn, maar **hij beweerde dat er geen enkele wetenschappelijke studie ooit bewezen heeft dat antidepressiva werkzaam zijn.**

    Andere nonsense die uit uitkraamde was dat hij **kwantumtheorie gebruikte om uit te leggen dat fysica (als in de processen, niet de wetenschap) niet zou bestaan zonder de menselijke psychologie** ‘want iets ontstaat pas wanneer het geobserveerd wordt’ – wat naar mijn begrip een verkeerde interpretatie is van kwantumtheorie én een over generalisatie is naar een compleet ander veld van de wetenschap.

  27. This guy needs to be suspended. He can have his opinions all he wants, but when he starts using his title as a way to spread blatant impossible lies that can put people in danger he should get removed from the title(s) he’s abusing.

  28. Who the fuck ever passed this nitwit for tenure? At advanced level it’s apparently true; the ones who can’t do teach.

  30. Uhm… yeah shure…
    Someone please remind me to stear clear of this dude and his team for any major kind of surgery or English lessons caz i’m pritty shure both are probably lethel.

  32. Matthias Desmet is not a professor at UGent, and InfoWars is an extremist rightwing bullshit website that does not deserve any recognition. Why are you posting this pile of horseshit?

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