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Awareness 1960 – 2002, Explicit Recall of Events During General Anaesthesia

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In 1960 Ruth Hutchinson1 published the first study on the incidence of awareness during general anaesthesia (GA).She found that 1.2% among 656 surgical patients remembered having been aware. The year after, in 1961, Meyer and Blacher2 illustrated the mental consequences after awareness. Patients who had awakened paralysed during cardiac surgery tended to suffer from repetitive nightmares, anxiety, irritability and preoccupation with death. This was before the posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) had been identified as a syndrome.3,4

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Sandin, R.H. (2003). Awareness 1960 – 2002, Explicit Recall of Events During General Anaesthesia. In: Vuyk, J., Schraag, S. (eds) Advances in Modelling and Clinical Application of Intravenous Anaesthesia. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 523. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9192-8_13

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