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1: Conscious Cogn. 1996 Dec;5(4):542-61.Click here to read Links
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Conscious Cogn. 1996 Dec;5(4):525-41.

Memory during general anesthesia: practical and methodological aspects.

Bonebakker AE, Jelicic M, Passchier J, Bonke B.

Department of Consultative Neurology and Psychology, Psychiatric Center Rosenburg, The Hague, The Netherlands.

Evidence coming from several studies into memory and awareness during general anesthesia suggests that in surgical patients who seem to be adequately anesthetized (i.e., unaware of what happens in the operating theater), some form of cognitive functioning is preserved. This finding has important implications both for clinical practice and for memory research. In order to give the methodological background of the present situation in this field of research, this article deals, on the basis of recent experiments, with important methodological aspects of studies into perception and memory during general anesthesia.

PMID: 9063615 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]