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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Accidental awareness is one of the most feared complications of general anesthesia for both patients and anesthetists. Patients report this failure of general anesthesia in approximately 1 in every 19 ...

It’s not just the fear of dying on the table that makes patients leery of going under anesthesia. It’s also the fear of waking up much sooner than intended — a paranoia perhaps made greater by 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 ...

“I was awake but paralyzed,” says Carol Weihrer as she recalls undergoing eye surgery in 1998. “I could hear the surgeon telling his trainee to ‘cut deeper into the eye,'” she says. “I was screaming, ...

American Society of Anesthesiologists President John Zerwas, MD, wrote a letter to the editor about intraoperative awareness while under anesthesia that was published in the April issue of The ...

Patients say it feels like being trapped in a corpse: They wake up during surgery, unable to move or scream. Some remember hearing their surgeons talk, and a few recall feeling intense pain. Some ...

Unintended intraoperative awareness, which occurs when general anesthesia is not achieved or maintained, affects up to 1% of patients at high risk for this complication. We tested the hypothesis that ...

Dec. 9 - I'm thinking to myself, there's no way in the world I'm going to survive this, I will die. This is it". Carol Weihrer of northern Virginia recalls her nightmare that unfolded 6 years ago.

Anesthesia has come a long, long way since the advent of painless surgeries on the Civil War battle days when it was administered most often by the surgeon dipping cloth in liquid chloroform or ether ...