Patient Awareness Under General Anesthesia is available as a PDF file on the AANA Web site and is free to patients, anesthesia professionals and other healthcare providers, according to the release.
The four organizations have placed education and elimination of intraoperative awareness as a priority. While anesthesia today is nearly 50 times safer than it was in the 1980s, some degree of intraoperative awareness still occurs at a frequency of around 1-2 in 1,000 anesthetics, according to the release.
Patient Awareness Under General Anesthesia explains what awareness under general anesthesia is and isn’t and why it can happen and discusses what researchers and anesthesia professionals are doing to lessen the chances of awareness occurring, according to the release. The brochure also offers guidance to patients for discussing awareness concerns with their anesthesia professional.
Read the AANA’s release on Patient Awareness Under General Anesthesia.
