'For now we see through a glass, darkly': The anaesthesia syndrome

British Journal of Anaesthesia

Volumn 112, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 790-793

  Sanders, R D ^a,b   Absalom, A ^c   Sleigh, J W ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALFENTANIL; ANESTHETIC AGENT; NORADRENALIN; PROPOFOL; THIOPENTAL; ETHER DERIVATIVE; SEVOFLURANE;

AMNESIA; ANAESTHESIA SYNDROME; BASAL GANGLION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BISPECTRAL INDEX; CATATONIA; CESAREAN SECTION; CONSCIOUSNESS; DREAMING; DRUG RESPONSE; FUNCTION TEST; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE AWARENESS; INTUBATION; ISOLATED FOREARM TECHNIQUE; LARYNGOSCOPY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; NORADRENERGIC SYSTEM; OBSTETRIC ANESTHESIA; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; REVIEW; SKIN INCISION; VENTRAL ATTENTION NETWORK; WAKEFULNESS; AWARENESS; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; PREGNANCY;

ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANESTHESIA, OBSTETRICAL; AWARENESS; CESAREAN SECTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; METHYL ETHERS; PREGNANCY;

EID: 84899827567     PISSN: 00070912     EISSN: 14716771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bja/aeu009     Document Type: Editorial

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