The American Society of PeriAnesthesia Nurses hopes to raise awareness of their field during PeriAnesthesia Nurse Awareness Week. 1. PeriAnesthesia Nurse Awareness Week is slated for Feb. 6 to Feb. 12 ...

Patients are more likely to experience unintended intraoperative awareness under general anesthesia with the bispectral index protocol than the end-tidal anesthetic-agent concentration, according to a ...

Brain structures which could predict an individual's predisposition to accidental awareness under anesthetic have been identified for the first time by neuroscientists in Trinity College Dublin. The ...

American Society of Anesthesiologists President John Zerwas, MD, wrote a letter to the editor about intraoperative awareness while under anesthesia that was published in the April issue of The ...

For many patients, anesthesia is the scariest part of surgery. But you can ease your fears - and help prevent the rare negative outcome - with awareness and good communication with doctors, says Dr.

The bispectral index monitor places a sensor on a patient’s forehead that monitors brain activity while under anesthesia. (Washington University Department of Anesthesiology) A widespread method used ...

Patients say it feels like being trapped in a corpse: They awake during surgery, unable to move or scream. Some remember hearing their surgeons talk, and a few recall feeling intense pain. Some ...

A medical accreditation group Tuesday urged hospitals nationwide to take steps to prevent “anesthesia awareness” — instances in which patients wake up during surgery and sometimes feel excruciating ...

Brain structures which could predict an individual's predisposition to accidental awareness under anaesthetic have been identified by neuroscientists. Brain structures which could predict an ...