In the late 1990s and early 2000s, doctors began wondering if people ever became aware while under anesthesia. They started doing post-operative interviews to find out. Then they took it one step ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- Having surgery can be a frightening prospect, but imagine waking up during that surgery when you're not supposed to. As CBS2's Kristine Johnson explained, it happens and the ...

Anesthesia awareness is rare, 1,2 but the incidence may approach 1% in patients at high risk. 3–5 Anesthesia awareness can lead to anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder. 6 The Joint Commission on ...

It’s not just the fear of dying on the table that makes patients leery of going under anesthesia. It’s also the fear of waking up much sooner than intended — a paranoia perhaps made greater by the ...

More than 40 million patients receive anesthesia each year in North America. The risks associated with anesthesia have progressively decreased, but the mechanisms of action of anesthetic drugs remain ...

Patients are more likely to experience unintended intraoperative awareness under general anesthesia with the bispectral index protocol than the end-tidal anesthetic-agent concentration, according to a ...

American Society of Anesthesiologists President John Zerwas, MD, wrote a letter to the editor about intraoperative awareness while under anesthesia that was published in the April issue of The ...

During surgery to remove a damaged right eye, Carol Weihrer woke up. "I was totally awake and aware," she says, "but completely unable to communicate or move in any way at all. …I heard the surgeon ...

A producer of the forthcoming film Awake, starring Jessica Alba and Hayden Christensen, says it "will do to surgery what Jaws did to swimming in the ocean." The film focuses on a man who experiences ...

Since the 19 th-century appearances of Drs. Frankenstein and Jekyll, films and literature have built up the doctor-horror category. The latest entry is a slight, amusingly hostile movie called Awake, ...

Awareness during anesthesia is a serious complication with potential long-term psychological consequences. Use of the bispectral index (BIS), developed from a processed electroencephalogram, has been ...