Perioperative eye protection under general anesthesia
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Awareness under general anesthesia.
General anesthesia aims to eliminate patients' awareness of excruciating pain during surgery. Nevertheless, rare occurrences of patient awareness continue because the problem is not yet completely preventable. One study puts the incidence of awareness at 0.18% for patients receiving muscle relaxants and at 0.10% for patients not given relaxant drugs. Awareness experiences frighten patients and ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Anaesthesiology Clinical Pharmacology
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0970-9185
DOI: 10.4103/0970-9185.105834