Monitors for Prevention of Intraoperative Awareness

Prevention of intraoperative awareness in a high-risk surgical population.

BACKGROUND 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 a protocol incorporating the electroencephalogram-derived bispectral index (BIS) is superior to a protocol incorporating standard monitoring of end-tidal anesthetic-agent concentration (...

Risk factor for intraoperative awareness.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The intraoperative awareness is an adverse event in the general anesthesia, and may occur in approximately 20,000 cases per year, which justifies the study of the risk factors for this event. The objective of this study was to review this subject in order to reduce the incidence of intraoperative awareness and psychological sequelae incurring from this incident, which ...

Intraoperative Awareness During Cesarean Delivery Under General Anesthesia

Background: General anesthesia (GA) for caesarean section (CS) has distinctive characteristics that may increase the risk of awareness during GA (AGA). Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate the incidence of unintended awareness during GA (AGA) in CS. Materials & Methods: This cross-sectional descriptive study was performed in Alzahra Hospital in Rasht City, Iran. Eligible wo...

NAP5: intraoperative awareness detected, and undetected.

Intraoperative awareness: controversies and non-controversies.

Intraoperative awareness, with or without recall, continues to be a topic of clinical significance and neurobiological interest. In this article, we review evidence pertaining to the incidence, sequelae, and prevention of intraoperative awareness. We also assess which aspects of the complication are well understood (i.e. non-controversial) and which require further research for clarification (i...