<p> </p><p>The aim of the literature review was to describe existing research and knowledge about awareness during general anesthesia. The method used was searching for scientific literature in data bases PubMed and Cinahl. Keywords were: anesthesia, awareness and general. Selection was limited to literature publicated between year 2004 to 2009. The review was designed in a descriptive attempt. The result consists of 19 scientific articles. The main result of the review showed that awareness is an unusual problem during general anesthesia. To explore when awereness had occured precised interwievs were performed. Different types of surgery or different types of cases were separated in the risk of getting afflicted. There existed monitoring to assess depth of anesthesia. Symptoms of awereness could be to hear noise or voices during surgery, feeling pain, feeling paralysed. Consequenses of experienced awareness could in some cases lead to repeated experience of the traumatic situation. Conclusion is that personel involved in anesthesia mainly can avoid awareness through prevention.</p><p> </p><p>Keywords: anesthesia, awareness, prevention</p>
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA/oai:DiVA.org:hig-4724 |
| Date | January 2009 |
| Creators | Björne, Anna |
| Publisher | University of Gävle, Department of Caring Sciences and Sociology |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, text |
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