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.

Experts report that modern anesthesia supports calm, controlled recovery rather than dramatic or unusual reactions.

New research from Baylor College of Medicine shows the brain can process and even anticipate language while under general anesthesia, suggesting complex cognition without conscious awareness. The ...

A Baylor College of Medicine study published in Nature reveals that the hippocampus can process and even predict language while patients are under general anesthesia. Using advanced neural probes ...

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 ...

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 ...

The brain appeared to process complex sensory information under general anesthesia, neural recordings suggested. Hippocampal neurons and local brain oscillations responded to sounds and podcast ...

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 ...