• Intraoperative awareness, which is the unexpected recall of events that occur during
anesthesia by patients who receive general anesthesia, occurs in up to 1 to 2 per 1000 …

Explicit recall of events during general anaesthesia is detected by direct questioning, as
patients may not report awareness spontaneously or if they are questioned non-specifically …

Anaesthesia awareness (AA) is postoperative recall of events experienced under general
anaesthesia. Most frequently patients remember an auditory perception, the feeling of motor …

General anesthesia aims to eliminate patients' awareness of excruciating pain during
surgery. Nevertheless, rare occurrences of patient awareness continue because the …

Awareness is the postoperative recall of sensory perception during general anaesthesia.
The incidence is quoted at 1-2 per every 1000 patients. This rare but serious adverse event …

IMPLICATIONS: Data from 19,575 patients indicate that the incidence of awareness with
recall after surgery under general anesthesia is 0.13%. This means that the minimum …

The possibility that a patient during general anaesthesia is aware of the operation going on
and aware of severe pain that might be remembered postoperatively must be very alarming …

Inadequate anaesthesia may lead to awareness. A properly trained anaesthetist,
administering anaesthesia according to their knowledge of pharmacology and patient and …

Awareness during anaesthesia is a state of consciousness that is revealed by explicit or
implicit memory of intraoperative events. Although large clinical surveys indicate an …

Background: Experiences of awareness and recall during general anesthesia can be most
distressing for patients. To obtain relevant information, the authors systematically …