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Sometimes, in surgery, the anesthesia doesn't work correctly so that the patient is paralyzed but still can feel everything and thus is in massive pain. Can doctors measure this by a sudden increasal in heart rate or something like that?

by /u/furywolf28 in /r/askscience

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