Accidental awareness occurs when a patient is temporarily conscious during a general anaesthetic and can remember things that happened during surgery, perhaps feeling pain or being unable to move.

Accidental awareness is one of the most feared complications of general anesthesia for both patients and anesthetists. Patients report this failure of general anesthesia in approximately 1 in every 19 ...

For many people, undergoing surgery and other procedures that require anesthesia can be fraught with anxiety. Some people fear they won't ever wake up after being "put under," a risk highlighted by ...

It is the stuff of nightmares - you are under anaesthetic during an operation but you are fully conscious. Aware of every incision -yet unable to communicate that fact. Now a leading Professor of ...

WATERLOO - On the day of his heart surgery in April 2006, Tom Hagarty went under general anesthesia at 6 a.m. and woke up at 11 p.m. While doctors at Allen Hospital worked to unblock five of his ...

Waking up during surgery sounds like an irrational fear, but the scary part is it’s not that uncommon. In fact, experts estimate that it happens to one out of every 1,000 patients who have an ...

The Ohio Patient Safety Institute provides a free, downloadable sample anesthesia awareness policy. The four-page example policy is intended to help address unintended intraoperative awareness during ...

Awareness during general anaesthesia is very uncommon, but when it occurs it’s distressing for patients and their carers. Our understanding of this phenomenon has grown over the past decade but we’re ...

Unintended intraoperative awareness, which occurs when general anesthesia is not achieved or maintained, affects up to 1% of patients at high risk for this complication. We tested the hypothesis that ...

EEG-based depth of anaesthesia monitors are designed to indicate the probability of consciousness with explicit recall in patients receiving general anaesthetics, and to aid the tailoring of ...