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Awareness in Anesthesia Author’s Name Institution Abstract Awareness in anesthesia is a phrase used by medics that refers to a condition that arises when a patient in surgery, and under general anesthesia, becomes aware of some or all procedures involving the surgery. Here, the patient passes through various situations which might end up in them getting posttraumatic disorder or even mental illness; for example, breathing problems, and even pains in some or whole of the body. General anesthesia refers to a numbing that affects the entire body and ordinarily causes loss of consciousness. However, recent studies indicate that intraoperative awareness is a very uncommon occurrence, which arises in only 0.1% to 0.2% of patients in recent years. The risk factors for anesthesia awareness include equipment failure or misuse, large anesthetic needs, and smaller anesthetic drugs. To avert this challenge, it essential to do a history and physical scrutiny, focusing on threat factors for pulmonary and cardiac complications and a determination of the patient’s functional capacity, are critical to any preoperative evaluation. Keywords: Awareness, anesthetics, general anesthesia, risk factors Introduction Anesthesia refers to a situation in which someone does not feel pain, touch or heat generally because of drugs they have been given (mostly injection) before undergoing surgery (Ghoneim, 2010). During and after this surgical treatment, patients often experience different feelings. From the research, 48% of the patients have breathing problems, 28% feel pains and a massive 48% also experience awareness report auditory recollection. Half of these patients
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