Anesthesia awareness is rare, 1,2 but the incidence may approach 1% in patients at high risk. 3–5 Anesthesia awareness can lead to anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder. 6 The Joint Commission on ...

Patients are more likely to experience unintended intraoperative awareness under general anesthesia with the bispectral index protocol than the end-tidal anesthetic-agent concentration, according to a ...

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 ...

An Australian study in this week's issue of THE LANCET highlights how the neuromonitoring of brain patterns of patients during surgery could help guide the use of anaesthesia and reduce the risk of ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. The bispectral index monitor places a sensor on a patient’s forehead that monitors brain activity while under anesthesia.

American Society of Anesthesiologists President John Zerwas, MD, wrote a letter to the editor about intraoperative awareness while under anesthesia that was published in the April issue of The ...

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.

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