anesthesia awareness

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

by Bessel van Der Kolk M. D.  · 7 Sep 2015  · 600pp  · 174,620 words

OR team by moving or crying out because she had been given a standard muscle relaxant to prevent muscle contractions during surgery. Some degree of “anesthesia awareness” is now estimated to occur in approximately thirty thousand surgical patients in the United States every year,32 and I had previously testified on behalf

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induced. This time she woke up to a feeling of safety. Two years later I wrote Nancy asking her permission to use her account of anesthesia awareness in this chapter. In her reply she updated me on the progress of her recovery: “I wish I could say that the surgery to which

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How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed

by Ray Kurzweil  · 13 Nov 2012  · 372pp  · 101,174 words

afterward. Even that is not universal, as some people do remember—accurately—their experience while under anesthesia, including, for example, conversations by their surgeons. Called anesthesia awareness, this phenomenon is estimated to occur about 40,000 times a year in the United States.3 But even setting that aside, consciousness and memory

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Institute, 2002). 2. Stuart Hameroff, Ultimate Computing: Biomolecular Consciousness and Nanotechnology (Amsterdam: Elsevier Science, 1987). 3. P. S. Sebel et al., “The Incidence of Awareness during Anesthesia: A Multicenter United States Study,” Anesthesia and Analgesia 99 (2004): 833–39. 4. Stuart Sutherland, The International Dictionary of Psychology (New York: Macmillan, 1990). 5

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We Are Electric: Inside the 200-Year Hunt for Our Body's Bioelectric Code, and What the Future Holds

by Sally Adee  · 27 Feb 2023  · 329pp  · 101,233 words

. 3–12 16 Robson, David. “This is what it’s like waking up during surgery,” Mosaic, 12 March 2019 <https://mosaicscience.com/story/anaesthesia-anesthesia-awake-awareness-surgery-operation-or-paralysed/> 17 Edelman, Elazer, et al. “Case 30-2020: A 54-Year-Old Man with Sudden Cardiac Arrest.” New England Journal of

The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

by Atul Gawande  · 2 Jan 2009  · 182pp  · 56,961 words

surgeon reviews how long the operation will take, the amount of blood loss the team should prepare for, and anything else people should be aware of; the anesthesia staff review their anesthetic plans and concerns; and the nursing staff review equipment availability, sterility, and their patient concerns. Finally, at the end of

Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth

by Stuart Ritchie  · 20 Jul 2020

, 2015). 58.  Joshua Lang, ‘Awakening’, The Atlantic, Feb. 2013; https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/01/awakening/309188/ 59.  Michael S. Avidan et al., ‘Anesthesia Awareness and the Bispectral Index’, New England Journal of Medicine 358, no. 11 (13 Mar. 2008): 1097; https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa0707361 60.  Diana Herrera

Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time

by Michael Shermer  · 1 Jan 1997  · 404pp  · 134,430 words

of the scene and then rendered back into words. Further, quite frequently patients in trauma or surgery are not totally unconscious or under the anesthesia and are aware of what is happening around them. If the patient is in a teaching hospital, the attending physician or chief resident who performs the surgery