Conscious awareness and memory during general anesthesia.

بررسی میزان آگاهی (awareness) در طی بی هوشی عمومی جهت سزارین در بیمارستان های آموزشی دانشگاه علوم پزشکی مازندران در سال 83-84

Background and purpose: Awareness during general anesthesia is a frightening experience that often causes patients to panic and feel helpless even when there is no pain and no feel of body movement and manipulation by the surgeon. Awareness monitoring is still complicated and controversial. Now a days this is based on electroencephalography data such as the bispectral index (BIS) or spectr...

Awareness during anesthesia.

MEMORY is not a single entity. Current classification distinguishes between two types: explicit, or conscious memory, and implicit, or unconscious memory. Explicit memory refers to the conscious recollection of previous experiences. Implicit memory, by contrast, refers to changes in performance or behavior that are produced by previous experiences but without any conscious recollection of those...

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. ...

Anaesthesia, amnesia and harm.

Anaesthesia causes unconsciousness by suppressing neural mechanisms mediating arousal and awareness. It also causes amnesia by disrupting mechanisms of memory consolidation. Some patients under general anaesthesia unexpectedly become aware during surgery and form a traumatic memory of their experience. After describing the neural underpinning of phenomenal consciousness and memory, I examine th...

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