Anesthesia awareness is rare, 1,2 but the incidence may approach 1% in patients at high risk. 3–5 Anesthesia awareness can lead to anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder. 6 The Joint Commission on ...

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 ...

The Ohio Patient Safety Institute provides a free, downloadable sample anesthesia awareness policy. The four-page example policy is intended to help address unintended intraoperative awareness during ...

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 ...

The bispectral index monitor places a sensor on a patient’s forehead that monitors brain activity while under anesthesia. (Washington University Department of Anesthesiology) A widespread method used ...

A medical accreditation group Tuesday urged hospitals nationwide to take steps to prevent “anesthesia awareness” — instances in which patients wake up during surgery and sometimes feel excruciating ...

The American Association of Nurse Anesthetists, American Society of Anesthesiologists, American Academy of Anesthesiologist Assistants and the Anesthesia Awareness Campaign, Inc., joined forces to ...

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