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This document discusses awareness during general anesthesia, which refers to patients recalling events that occurred during anesthesia without pain or pressure. It can include sounds, conversations, sensations of paralysis or helplessness. The incidence was historically higher with nitrous oxide use but is now around 0.03% for painful stimuli and 0.1-0.7% otherwise. Monitoring tools like BIS, EEG, auditory evoked potentials, and ocular microtremor can help detect awareness by analyzing brain activity change

Author

Indrani Hemantkumar

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EN