'Awareness' and 'recall' during emergence from general anaesthesia.
A case is presented in which memory of events during emergence from anaesthesia resulted in serious psychological sequelae. Communication with patients should begin almost immediately after anaesthesia has been terminated and should have prevented this unfortunate incident.
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Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong SAR, Peoples' Republic of China.
D000762:Anesthesia Recovery Period; D000768:Anesthesia, General; D001007:Anxiety / Q000209:etiology* / Q000523:psychology; D001364:Awareness; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011939:Mental Recall; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000523:psychology*