Awareness during anesthesia: Risk factors, causes and sequelae: A review of reported cases in the literature

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 527-535

  Ghoneim, Mohamed M ^a,b   Block, Robert I ^a   Haffarnan, Mary ^a   Mathews, Maya J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZODIAZEPINE; HYPNOTIC AGENT; INHALATION ANESTHETIC AGENT; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT; NITROUS OXIDE; OPIATE; PROPOFOL; SCOPOLAMINE; ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ANESTHESIA; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; HELPLESSNESS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MENTAL DISEASE; OBESITY; PEROPERATIVE CARE; PREMEDICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SLEEP DISORDER; TACHYCARDIA; WEAKNESS; ADULT; AGE; AGED; AMBULATORY SURGERY; DELIVERY; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEART SURGERY; MALE; META ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; OBSTETRIC ANESTHESIA; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AMBULATORY SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ANESTHESIA; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANESTHESIA, OBSTETRICAL; ANESTHETICS; AWARENESS; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SLEEP DISORDERS;

EID: 59649113083     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ane.0b013e318193c634     Document Type: Article

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