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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Background: Awareness while under general anesthesia, and the later recall of what happened during surgery, can be experienced by patients as horrific events that leave lasting mental trauma behind.

Clinical studies have demonstrated that anesthesia awareness occurs in roughly one patient per thousand receiving general anesthesia. “ We realize that people may see the movie or related promotional ...

Preliminary results of two studies of intraoperative awareness have led the Food and Drug Administration to broaden its approval of a device that may help anesthesiologists better monitor patients so ...

A newer system intended to alert doctors when patients are regaining consciousness while under general anesthesia has not lowered incidence of anesthesia awareness any better than conventional ...

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Regarding Mike Jay’s review of Kate Cole-Adams’s “Anesthesia: The Gift of Oblivion and the Mystery of Consciousness” (Books, Dec. 30): Surgery and anesthesia are inherently risky, but anesthesia is ...

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