title: Intra-anesthetic awareness.
abstract: Awareness during anesthesia is as old as anesthesia itself. Using muscle relaxing drugs, operations can be done on a relaxed but fully aware patient. The problem of intra-anesthetic awareness still exists despite the advances in anesthetic drugs and monitoring. This article reviews the subject from some aspects including its causes, signs, tests and medico-legal points. Awareness during anesthesia can be looked at as 'the invisible scars of surgery.'
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesia, Hadassah University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Eldor
authors.forename: D Z
authors.initials: DZ
authors.lastname: Frankel
mesh_terms: D000768:Anesthesia, General; D000776:Anesthesiology / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D001364:Awareness; D003243:Consciousness; D004569:Electroencephalography; D006309:Hearing; D006801:Humans; D007431:Intraoperative Complications; D008318:Malpractice; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative / Q000523:psychology*