Anesthesia awareness
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Anesthesia awareness, or unintended intra-operative awareness occurs during general anesthesia, on the operating table, when the patient has not been given enough of the general anesthetic or analgesic to render the patient unconscious during general anesthesia (often when agents used to paralyze the patient have been administered). In brief, it is the post-operative recall of intra-operative events.
However, it can also occur in the post-anesthesia care unit (PACU) or in the intensive-care unit (ICU), where patients are kept sedated, tranquilized and sometimes paralyzed (and intubated) and are connected to life support systems, awaiting normalization of their physiology.
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Cultural references
- Awake, a 2007 film about anesthetic awareness
- Anesthesia, an award-winning horror film about anesthesia awareness.
- Return, a Korean thriller movie about anesthesia awareness.
- In an episode of Nip/Tuck a woman, Rhea Reynolds, experiences anesthesia awareness while having surgery to repair scarring on her face.
- Under: a 2006 film about anesthetic awareness
- Hannah Montana, once Miley experiences anesthesia awareness while having surgery to repair her leg.
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