Awareness in Patients During Surgery | Healthmad
Imagine waking up in the middle of surgery and being paralyzed and unable to move. It happens to at least 20,000 people every year and until recently, patients were told they were only having a bad dream. No more, doctors and hospitals are taking surgery awareness more seriously today. Hospitals were hopeful that a gadget called BIS which measures brain activity would signal when the patient was conscious, but it didn’t prove as effective as they thought. During surgery, the skill of the person administering the anesthesia is the only thing standing between you and unimaginable pain and terror.
