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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Awareness during anesthesia is a serious complication with potential long-term psychological consequences. Use of the bispectral index (BIS), developed from a processed electroencephalogram, has been ...

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 ...

Few moments in medicine require as much trust as anesthesia. Patients surrender awareness, control, and often fear while relying entirely on the expertise of ...

The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations on Wednesday asked hospitals to take additional steps to prevent "anesthesia awareness," instances in which patients regain ...

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 ...

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 ...

Seven years ago, Carol Weihrer, a flutist and office administrator, had her right eye removed. She had been living in pain from a severely scratched cornea for years and had already undergone 17 ...