Consciousness, awareness, and anesthesia / edited by George A. Mashour.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mashour, George A. (George Alexander), 1969- editor.

Series:

Cambridge medicine (Series)

Cambridge medicine

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anesthesia.

Consciousness.

Awareness.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 262 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Consciousness, Awareness, & Anesthesia

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Hypnosis, amnesia, and immobility are three major therapeutic endpoints of general anesthesia. In one to two cases out of a thousand, hypnosis and amnesia are not achieved - often leaving a patient immobile but capable of experiencing and remembering intraoperative events. Awareness during general anesthesia is one of the most dreaded complications of surgery and is feared by patients and clinicians alike. Despite many advances in the field, there are also a number of unresolved questions that persist. Some of the difficulties in the detection and prevention of awareness during anesthesia relate to the underlying complexities of the neuroscientific basis of consciousness. Consciousness, Awareness, and Anesthesia is a multidisciplinary approach to both the scientific problem of consciousness and the clinical problem of awareness during general anesthesia. An international cadre of authors with expertise in anesthesiology, neurobiology, and philosophy provides a cutting-edge perspective. No other book on the subject has drawn from such a breadth of scholarship.

Contents:

Relevance of sleep neurobiology for cognitive neuroscience and anesthesiology / Giancarlo Vanini, Helen A. Baghdoyan, and Ralph Lydic

The neurobiology of consciousness / Christof Koch and Florian Mormann

Memory formation during general anesthesia / Chantal Kerssens and Michael Alkire

Dreaming during anesthesia / Kate Leslie

Etiology and risk factors of intraoperative awareness / Mohammed Ghoneim

Monitoring anesthetic depth / Gerhard Schneider

Current controversies in intraoperative awareness I / Paul S. García and Peter Sebel

Current controversies in intraoperative awareness II / Benjamin J. Palanca, Adam Searleman, and Michael S. Avidan

Awareness during general anesthesia in the pediatric population / Andrew J. Davidson and Rachel Hutchens

Psychological consequences of intraoperative awareness / Claes Lennmarken and Gunilla Sydsjo

Medicolegal consequences of intraoperative awareness / Karen B. Domino and Christopher D. Kent

Complaints of awareness after sedation and regional anesthesia : the role of patient expectations / Roy K. Esaki

Philosophical implications of awareness during general anesthesia / Eric LaRock.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-20690-1

0-511-73952-4

1-282-53613-3

9786612536137

0-511-67845-2

0-511-68168-2

0-511-67719-7

0-511-68366-9

0-511-67629-8

0-511-67970-X

OCLC:

609860861