Parental Recall of Anesthesia Information

Incidence of awareness with recall during general anesthesia

Background: Experience of awareness and recall during general anesthesia can be very distressing for patients. There is no doubt that surgery pain is the most distressing feature of awareness. This condition can cause neurosis in patients. If patient be aware during surgery and be able to hear some comment, she or he senses weakness, paralysis, feeling of helpless and anxiety, panic and death. ...

Empirical study of parental recall bias.

Recall bias is a major concern in case-control studies in which questionnaire data are used to assess past exposure. The authors conducted a validation substudy within the framework of a parent case-control study on risk factors for acute lymphoblastic leukemia in children aged < or =9 years diagnosed in 1980-1993 in Quebec, Canada. Parental recall bias for two variables was assessed: reported ...

Incidence of diarrhea: poor parental recall ability.

Several methodological issues may have an impact on the incidence rates of childhood acute diarrhea reported by community-based studies. This study was performed to assess the impact of parental recall ability and definition of diarrhea on the estimate of incidence of acute diarrhea. Eighty-four children younger than 40 months were randomly selected and visited every other day for four weeks an...

What about Memory, Consciousness, Recall, and Awareness in Anesthesia?

Parental presence during anesthesia induction.

survival rate was significantly better in babies with apnea of prematurity (69.2%) as compared to those with infection and apnea (23.1%). When compared to infection (all cases) where the survival rate was 60%, infection with apnea had a significantly poorer outcome (p <0.05) indicating thereby that apnea is a manifestation of severe sepsis(4). Apnea of prematurity and fewer episodes (between 1 ...