From Hypnos to Ephialtes: waking up to the consequences of accidental awareness during obstetric general anaesthesia

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¹ Department of Anesthesiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.
² King Edward Memorial Hospital, Perth, Australia.

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A Palanisamy et al. Anaesthesia. 2021 Jun.

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. 2021 Jun;76(6):736-739.

doi: 10.1111/anae.15429. Epub 2021 Feb 9.

¹ Department of Anesthesiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.
² King Edward Memorial Hospital, Perth, Australia.

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Keywords: anaesthesia; awareness; general; obstetric.

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Incidence of accidental awareness during general anaesthesia in obstetrics: a multicentre, prospective cohort study.
Odor PM, Bampoe S, Lucas DN, Moonesinghe SR, Andrade J, Pandit JJ; Pan-London Peri-operative Audit and Research Network (PLAN), for the DREAMY Investigators Group. Odor PM, et al. Anaesthesia. 2021 Jun;76(6):759-776. doi: 10.1111/anae.15385. Epub 2021 Jan 12. Anaesthesia. 2021. PMID: 33434945

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