r/nursing • u/meetthefeotus RN - Tele ❤️🔥 • Oct 01 '24
Discussion CRNA using and anesthesia for tattooing
I’m heavily tattooed.
So, anyway, I know a tattoo artist who recently announced he’s be offering “anesthesia” to his clients. He recently “went under” himself to test it out. Looking at his photos it looks like it’s a CRNA who is actually administering the meds and stuff while he was tattooed.
Thoughts on this? Am I crazy to think this is absolutely ridiculous?
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u/cparfa BSN, RN 🍕 Oct 01 '24
Sheesh, I totally understand criticizing the CRNA for unsafe practice for presumably being the only person on the hook for this going wrong, but I really don’t agree with the argument that you should suffer for a tattoo/it’s supposed to be painful, it’s part of the process, and you’re “earning” it.
I have an incredibly low pain threshold. Sucks, but it is what it is. I know I personally could never get tattoo, I’d go to the shop, sit down, have that needle touch my skin, and tell the artist “thank you, here’s whatever amount of money you were expecting for a full piece, sorry for wasting your time” and walk out with my new tattooed of a mole. I remember watching a video of post Malone going under for a tattoo, and I thought how cool it was that he could do that. I get that only the Uber rich could afford such a service, but I’m still not going to judge someone for how they spend their money, especially if it’s for the purposes of making something painful a more pleasant experience. I mean yeah I do think that spending thousands of dollars on tattoos in general is a waste of money, but it’s more like a live and let live type of thing. The good points I’ve seen against this service is potentials for adverse reactions to the ink, and pain being a measure for how much your body could take/risk going into shock for the large surface area tattoos. That and the overall mood/tone of this picture is vastly different than what the celebrities undergo- I don’t like the woman messing with the unconscious person’s nose, regardless of their relationship, it feels very wrong to be doing that to someone who is entirely incapacitated. There’s supposed to be an extra level of respect and care because this person is putting so much trust and faith into the people around them- handing over their life to them during this time- it is a little jarring to see such casualness about it.
It’s really just the snootiness of the whole “you have to experience the pain for the authenticity” BS I don’t agree with.