1. Phillip Gett memorial lecture awareness in anaesthesia
- Author
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J. E. Utting
- Subjects
medicine.medical_specialty ,Event (relativity) ,Nitrous Oxide ,Tubocurarine ,Anesthesia, General ,Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine ,Ophthalmology ,medicine ,Humans ,In patient ,Thiopental ,Wakefulness ,Light anaesthesia ,Ventilators, Mechanical ,business.industry ,Muscle Relaxants, Central ,General surgery ,Consumer Behavior ,medicine.disease ,humanities ,United Kingdom ,Dreams ,Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine ,Unpleasant dreams ,Medical emergency ,business ,Anesthesia, Inhalation ,psychological phenomena and processes - Abstract
An attempt is made to assess the importance of awareness and dreaming in patients subjected to light anaesthesia with muscle relaxants. Frank awareness is probably an uncommon event if the anaesthetic be given competently, but unpleasant dreams can, in some circumstances, be significant.
- Published
- 1975