Depth-of-Anesthesia Monitor and the Frequency of Intraoperative Awareness  

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Orser, Beverley A.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The New England Journal of Medicine (keterangan: ada di Proquest) vol. 358 no. 11 (Mar. 2008), page 1189.

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Perpustakaan FK Nomor Panggil: N08.K.2008.02 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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More than 21 million patients in North America alone receive general anesthesia each year,1 and thanks to increasing knowledge, skill, and sophisticated technology, the vast majority of anesthetic procedures are uneventful. However, a rare but serious adverse event is the explicit recall of sensory perceptions during general anesthesia, termed "awareness" or "intraoperative awareness." The incidence of awareness may be as high as 1 or 2 for every 1000 patients, possibly higher among children.2,3,4,5 Awareness occurs more frequently among patients who have received neuromuscular-blocking drugs, who cannot signal to the medical team that they are conscious.3 In most cases, awareness is . . .

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