Accidental awareness under anesthesia (AAUA) has long been regarded as an uncommon complication in the operating room. Yet for the small percentage of patients who experience it, AAUA can leave ...

July 29, 2014 – A simplified anesthesia procedure may enable more widespread use of preoperative testing to demonstrate the cause of airway obstruction in patients with severe sleep apnea, suggests a ...

Increased exposure to general anesthesia during surgical procedures is associated with long-term decline in executive function, selective attention and mental speed, and information processing speed.

Around 1 in 10 surgery patients studied by researchers were still partly conscious during their procedure despite having been given general anesthesia, a study has suggested. The study involved 338 ...