NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- Having surgery can be a frightening prospect, but imagine waking up during that surgery when you're not supposed to. As CBS2's Kristine Johnson explained, it happens and the ...

How many patients experience unwanted awareness during general anesthesia for surgery? The true rate is low but difficult to determine, while certain factors seem to increase the risk, according to a ...

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, doctors began wondering if people ever became aware while under anesthesia. They started doing post-operative interviews to find out. Then they took it one step ...

More than 40 million patients receive anesthesia each year in North America. The risks associated with anesthesia have progressively decreased, but the mechanisms of action of anesthetic drugs remain ...

It’s not just the fear of dying on the table that makes patients leery of going under anesthesia. It’s also the fear of waking up much sooner than intended — a paranoia perhaps made greater by the ...

Patients are more likely to experience unintended intraoperative awareness under general anesthesia with the bispectral index protocol than the end-tidal anesthetic-agent concentration, according to a ...

During surgery to remove a damaged right eye, Carol Weihrer woke up. "I was totally awake and aware," she says, "but completely unable to communicate or move in any way at all. …I heard the surgeon ...

American Society of Anesthesiologists President John Zerwas, MD, wrote a letter to the editor about intraoperative awareness while under anesthesia that was published in the April issue of The ...

Preliminary results of two studies of intraoperative awareness have led the Food and Drug Administration to broaden its approval of a device that may help anesthesiologists better monitor patients so ...

Patients say it feels like being trapped in a corpse: They wake up during surgery, unable to move or scream. Some remember hearing their surgeons talk, and a few recall feeling intense pain. Some ...

A newer system intended to alert doctors when patients are regaining consciousness while under general anesthesia has not lowered incidence of anesthesia awareness any better than conventional ...

The rate of accidental awareness under general anesthesia is extremely rare, about one in 15,000, according to U.S. News & World Report. These recent findings were published in the United Kingdom ...