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Awareness During Anaesthesia
SUMMARY: Awareness is the postoperative recall of sensory perception during general anaesthesia. The incidence is quoted at 1-2 per every 1000 patients. This rare but serious adverse event can be extremely distressing for both the patient as well as the anaesthesiologist. Awareness during anaesthesi...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2900098/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20640115 |
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author | Sandhu, K Dash, HH |
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description | SUMMARY: Awareness is the postoperative recall of sensory perception during general anaesthesia. The incidence is quoted at 1-2 per every 1000 patients. This rare but serious adverse event can be extremely distressing for both the patient as well as the anaesthesiologist. Awareness during anaesthesia may occur despite apparently sound anaesthetic management and is usually not associated with pain. However, a few cases may experience excruciating pain and have long term neuropsychiatric sequelae like post-traumatic stress disorder. This adverse event can also have serious medicolegal implications. This article addresses the various contributory factors that may predispose to intra-operative awareness. Preventive measures in the preinduction period as well as intraoperatively are discussed, including the use of depth of anaesthesia monitors. Remedial steps to be taken when such an event occurs are also discussed. |
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spelling | pubmed-29000982010-07-16 Awareness During Anaesthesia Sandhu, K Dash, HH Indian J Anaesth Review Article SUMMARY: Awareness is the postoperative recall of sensory perception during general anaesthesia. The incidence is quoted at 1-2 per every 1000 patients. This rare but serious adverse event can be extremely distressing for both the patient as well as the anaesthesiologist. Awareness during anaesthesia may occur despite apparently sound anaesthetic management and is usually not associated with pain. However, a few cases may experience excruciating pain and have long term neuropsychiatric sequelae like post-traumatic stress disorder. This adverse event can also have serious medicolegal implications. This article addresses the various contributory factors that may predispose to intra-operative awareness. Preventive measures in the preinduction period as well as intraoperatively are discussed, including the use of depth of anaesthesia monitors. Remedial steps to be taken when such an event occurs are also discussed. Medknow Publications 2009-04 /pmc/articles/PMC2900098/ /pubmed/20640115 Text en © Indian Journal of Anaesthesia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Review Article Sandhu, K Dash, HH Awareness During Anaesthesia |
title | Awareness During Anaesthesia |
title_full | Awareness During Anaesthesia |
title_fullStr | Awareness During Anaesthesia |
title_full_unstemmed | Awareness During Anaesthesia |
title_short | Awareness During Anaesthesia |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2900098/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20640115 |
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