<br />Awareness during general anesthesia <br />By dr. Amassi Yakdhan <br />2021<br /><br /><br /><br /> General anesthesia aims to eliminate patients awareness of excruciating pain during surgery . Nevertheless , rare occurrence of patient awareness continue because the problem is not yet clear or completely preventable .<br />Awareness is experiences frighten patient & impact their implicit & explicit memories in ways that leave a lifetime of residual emotional & psychological problems ranging from sleep disturbance , nightmares & day time anxiety that may subside with time to development of post traumatic stress disorder .<br />Most anesthetists monitor depth of anesthesia by assessing intraoperative hemodynamic response to surgical stimuli …an approach asked by other authors . Several depth of anesthesia monitors are available but there is no specific monitors that is 100% reliable .<br />There are lot of studies & reports about awareness during anesthesia , that aim to reduce the rate of this problem . These studies showed the strong indication of assessment preoperatively ) like ask about previous experience of awareness ).<br />It is a serious disorder but not very common , the incidence of last new study find 0.18 of patients got awareness who received muscle relaxant & 0.10 of patients who didn’t receive muscle relaxant . A problem by which patient can prosecuted the anesthetist & the hospital ; that can oblige the hospital to prove that this disorder is of un clear reason till now & should absolve its affiliates from any default including the anesthetist .<br />End / 2021 <br />