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Accidental awareness while under general anaesthesia
Lu ChangQuehua LuoYunfei ChaiHaihua Shu
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2019 Volume 13 Issue 4 Pages 364-366

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Accidental awareness during general anaesthesia may cause many intraoperative discomforts and bring further moderate to severe long-term symptoms including flashbacks, nightmares, hyperarousal or post-traumatic stress disorder. The incidence of awareness varied from 0.017% to 4% among studies. The relatively reliable incidence of intraoperative awareness with postoperative recall is 0.02%. The reason causing awareness was unclear. Insufficient anaesthetic dosing was thought as the principal cause. Even awareness was not comprehensively understood, some endeavors have been raised to prevent or reduce it, including i) Reducing the insufficient anaesthetic dosing induced by negligence; ii) Providing close clinical observation and clinical parameters from the monitor such as bispectral index or electroencephalogram, as well as isolated forearm technique and passive brain-computer interface may bring some effects sometimes. Because current studies still have some flaws, further trials with new detecting approach, superior methodology and underlying aetiology are needed to unfasten the possible factors causing awareness.

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