what about memory, consciousness, recall, and awareness in anesthesia?

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

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

1 It is fair to say that at the moment the Bispectral Index (BIS) does not offer guarantees for awareness prevention and as reported by Avidan, the use of the Bispectral Index could give anesthesiologists a false sense of security that if they keep the measurement between 40 and 60, they will prevent anesthesia A. 2 Why do we continue to use the BIS ? It simply guides us in saving drugs and fac...

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. ...

Awareness and recall during general anesthesia

Anesthesia awareness is defined as both consciousness and recall of surgical events. New research has been conducted out to test this phenomenon. However, testing methods have not proven reliable, including those using devices based on electroencephalographic techniques to detect and prevent intraoperative awareness. The limitations of a standard intraoperative brain monitor reflect our insuffi...

Awareness with recall during general anesthesia.

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Conscious awareness and memory during general anesthesia.

Conscious awareness is an infrequent complication of general anesthesia. All methods of anesthesia have been implicated, and no method guarantees amnesia. This article examines implicit and explicit memory and discusses factors associated with awareness. Common methods of detection are unreliable, and symptoms resembling post-traumatic stress disorder may result if awareness goes unrecognized a...