Why the study?
Does auditory information presented during general anesthesia result in postoperative recall?
Population
48 patients receiving general anesthesia
Design
Other
Follow-up
Postoperative
Authors
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Recall warrants checking for inadequate anesthesia depth; Level 5 data leaves open non-explicit effects of intraoperative auditory stimuli.
Does auditory information presented during general anesthesia result in postoperative recall?
Adequately anesthetized patients do not remember auditory information presented during surgery, suggesting that apparent recall indicates inadequate anesthesia.
Dubovsky et al. (1976) studied this question.
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