In the late 1990s and early 2000s, doctors began wondering if people ever became aware while under anesthesia. They started doing post-operative interviews to find out. Then they took it one step ...

If you have taken a look at the trailers of the recent Shekhar Suman directed flick Heartless, you must have come across a stricken Adhyayan Suman (lead actor and Shekar Suman's son) thinking aloud ...

More than 40 million patients receive anesthesia each year in North America. The risks associated with anesthesia have progressively decreased, but the mechanisms of action of anesthetic drugs remain ...

Patients are more likely to experience unintended intraoperative awareness under general anesthesia with the bispectral index protocol than the end-tidal anesthetic-agent concentration, according to a ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- Having surgery can be a frightening prospect, but imagine waking up during that surgery when you're not supposed to. As CBS2's Kristine Johnson explained, it happens and the ...

For many people, undergoing surgery and other procedures that require anesthesia can be fraught with anxiety. Some people fear they won't ever wake up after being "put under," a risk highlighted by ...

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This section presents medications that are known to potentially lead to 'Unwanted awareness during anaesthesia' as a side effect. It's important to note that mild side effects are quite common with ...

The French refer to the emergence from general anaesthesia as “réanimation” - literally to restore consciousness. This is a crucial attribute - that consciousness will return following the desired ...

It can be the smallest event that triggers Donna Penner’s traumatic memories of an operation from more than ten years ago. One day, for instance, she was waiting in the car as her daughter ran an ...