You don't need to be sedated just get a local. Being put under increases the risks and is not necessary. A local is enough to take the pain away.
It is very difficult to administer effective local anesthesia to make circumcision painless in adults and more often then not newborns are subjected to this with no anesthesia at all. it is a barbarous and utterly useless procedure and can result in psychological damage side from the genital mutilation. An interesting and informative article surrounding this subject may be fond at ( Infant Responses to Circumcision ) in the related link below.
Without Anesthesia was created in 1978.
The duration of Without Anesthesia is 2.18 hours.
For babies, generally no (unless you count a few drops of wine given to the baby to calm him down). For older children and adults, the patient is ALWAYS circumcised in a hospital under general anesthesia.
69420 (without general anesthesia), or 69421 (requiring general anesthesia)
Careful injection of local anesthesia or nerve blocks create sufficient numbness to allow the surgery to be performed painlessly, without the risks associated with general anesthesia.
Use CPT 64920 if it is performed WITHOUT anesthesia, use CPT code 64921 if it is performed WITH anesthesia, and then the anesthesia cannot be billed separate, as payment will be included in the second CPT code.
In the US, anesthesia would be routinely given. The cutting of a tendon would cause extreme pain if done without general anesthesia.
'I had a consultation today with an anesthesiologist for my double lumpectomy and he gave me the choice between local anesthesia and general anesthesia. Local is sedation and general you are put completely to sleep. '
This is not possible.. local or general anesthesia is required in order to have liposuction! But if you wish to avoid anesthesia you should consider some non surgical fat removal techniques (Coolsculpting i Lipo Zerona etc)
I don't know how to answer your question but... I've never seen his penis or read anything about him being or not being circumcised. And I don't think anyone can give you a correct answer to your question.
23650 for manipulation without anesthesia 23655 for manipulation requiring anesthesia. Get more details on supercoder.com
This is such a personal question, I doubt anyone outside of his family and doctor know the answer to this.