Waking Up During Surgery: Low-cost Prevention?
Sunday, April 5, 2009 - 20:35
in Health & Medicine
Consciousness during general anaesthesia is an extremely distressing condition leading to post-operative psychological trauma and contributes towards patients' fear of surgery. Researchers write that intra-operative awareness with subsequent recall is surprisingly common, affecting around 1 in 500 surgical cases. These appear to be mostly preventable.