Accidental awareness occurs when a patient is temporarily conscious during a general anaesthetic and can remember things that happened during surgery, perhaps feeling pain or being unable to move.

For every 1,000 patients undergoing surgery and receiving general anaesthesia, one or two will wake up during the procedure, unable to move, speak or otherwise indicate to doctors they are conscious ...

WATERLOO - On the day of his heart surgery in April 2006, Tom Hagarty went under general anesthesia at 6 a.m. and woke up at 11 p.m. While doctors at Allen Hospital worked to unblock five of his ...

Researchers have recorded direct evidence that the human hippocampus continues to process spoken words, grammar, and meaning ...

An Australian study in this week's issue of THE LANCET highlights how the neuromonitoring of brain patterns of patients during surgery could help guide the use of anaesthesia and reduce the risk of ...

IT’S something that terrifies anyone facing the prospect of an operation, that fleeting thought; ‘What IF I wake up?’. For ...

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 ...

The unconscious brain appears to be far more capable than scientists once believed. Researchers found that patients under ...

Accidental awareness occurs when a patient is temporarily conscious during a general anaesthetic and can remember things that happened during surgery, perhaps feeling pain or being unable to move.