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 anaesthesia for both patients and anaesthetists. Patients report this failure of general anaesthesia in approximately 1 in every ...

For every 1,000 patients undergoing surgery and receiving general anaesthesia, one or two will wake up during the procedure, unable to move, speak or otherwise indicate to doctors they are conscious ...

Newswise — Researchers at the University of Michigan Medical School, University of Colorado School of Medicine and Emory University have found that the incidence of intra-operative awareness and ...

Anesthetics, drugs that reduce sensation or, in the case of general anesthetics, awareness, help doctors minimize the pain ...

Brain structures which could predict an individual's predisposition to accidental awareness under anaesthetic have been identified by neuroscientists. Brain structures which could predict an ...

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 ...

General anesthesia is given during surgery to make people unconscious, eliminate pain during the procedure and prevent reflex movements. Many factors are known to impact how anesthesia affects a given ...

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.