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TIA – Awareness under anesthesia
Our inaugural TIA! (mini-episodes reviewing a specific article)
This one is is discussing an article that measured awareness under anesthesia – more common than you might expect…
Sanders, R., Gaskell, A., Raz, A., Winders, J., Stevanovic, A., Rossaint, R., Boncyk, C., Defresne, A., Tran, G., Tasbihgou, S., Meier, S., Vlisides, P., Fardous, H., Hess, A., Bauer, R., Absalom, A., Mashour, G., Bonhomme, V., Coburn, M., Sleigh, J. (2017). Incidence of Connected Consciousness after Tracheal Intubation Anesthesiology 126(2), 214-222. https://dx.doi.org/10.1097/ALN.0000000000001479
Gaskell, A., Hight, D., Winders, J., Tran, G., Defresne, A., Bonhomme, V., Raz, A., Sleigh, J., Sanders, R. (2017). Frontal alpha-delta EEG does not preclude volitional response during anaesthesia: prospective cohort study of the isolated forearm technique. British journal of anaesthesia 119(4), 664-673. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bja/aex170