Awareness and its medicolegal implications
| Autor: | J.P. Payne |
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| Rok vydání: | 1994 |
| Předmět: |
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Male media_common.quotation_subject Anesthesiology Pregnancy Perception Converse Medicine Anesthesia Obstetrical Humans General anaesthesia Intraoperative Complications media_common Anesthetics business.industry Unconsciousness Malpractice Awareness Middle Aged Curare Alertness Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine Anesthesia Female medicine.symptom Neuromuscular Blocking Agents business Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | British journal of anaesthesia. 73(1) |
| ISSN: | 0007-0912 |
| Popis: | Logically, it makes no sense to attempt to describe awareness during general anaesthesia. By definition, general anaesthesia is a state of unconsciousness accompanied by loss of sensation without interference with vital functions, whereas awareness can be regarded as a state of alertness, sensitivity or perception which is incompatible with general anaesthesia. It follows therefore that a patient under general anaesthesia cannot be aware and the converse is equally true; an aware patient is not anaesthetized. Having said that, it has to be acknowledged that the term « awareness during general anaesthesia » has now been almost universally accepted and indeed during the past decade it has virtually entered the language. Accordingly, it would be futile and perhaps pedantic to attempt to alter it |
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