Key result
A patient experienced accidental awareness and paralysis during surgery under general anaesthesia, highlighting the severe distress associated with this complication.
Highlights the terrifying patient experience of accidental awareness under general anesthesia to emphasize the need for preventative strategies by perioperative practitioners.
Severe distress from awareness under anesthesia warrants vigilance; leaves open optimal prevention strategies pending higher-level evidence.
I thought the last thing I would remember about my surgery was counting up to 10 ... but that didn't happen... I could hear people talking, instruments banging, the sound of my heart beat coming from the anaesthetic machine and all of a sudden, that horrible pain digging inside my body. Oh my God! I thought. I'm awake! I tried to tell someone but no sound came out of my mouth. I tried to kick my legs, shake my arms, blink, breathe... Nothing!! I couldn't move a muscle. I was paralysed and awake during my operation... I thought I was going to die!!!
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Debora Gugelmin-Almeida (2015) studied Accidental awareness under general anaesthesia. General anaesthesia was evaluated. A patient experienced accidental awareness and paralysis during surgery under general anaesthesia, highlighting the severe distress associated with this complication.
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