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‘Awareness’ and ‘recall’ during emergence from general anaesthesia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 August 2006

A. M.-H. Ho
A. M.-H. Ho
Affiliation:
Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong SAR, Peoples' Republic of China
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Abstract

A case is presented in which memory of events during emergence from anaesthesia resulted in serious psychological sequelae. Communication with patients should begin almost immediately after anaesthesia has been terminated and should have prevented this unfortunate incident.

Keywords

anaesthesiageneralmental processescognitionawarenessmental processeslearningmemory (short-term)recall
Type
Clinical Letter
Information
European Journal of Anaesthesiology , Volume 18 , Issue 9 , September 2001 , pp. 623 - 625
Copyright
2001 European Society of Anaesthesiology

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