Highlights the occurrence of intraoperative awareness in children, a complication that may be more common than in adults but whose causes and long-term psychological impacts remain unknown.
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Alerts clinicians to possible awareness during pediatric anesthesia; leaves open questions on incidence, risks, and sequelae.
Intraoperative awareness is an anesthesia complication and occurs when a patient becomes conscious during a procedure performed under general anesthesia and subsequently has recall of these events. Awareness is well described phenomenon in adults, with an incidence of 0.1-0.2 % for low-risk surgical procedures. Recent studies have shown that awareness in children is more common than in adults. However, causes and the long-term psychological impact of awareness in children are unknown. We report on two cases of intraoperative awareness in children in an attempt to throw further light on this complex problem.
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