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© The Board of Management and Trustees of the British Journal of Anaesthesia 2008. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Memory and awareness during anaesthesia

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Memory and Awareness 7, MAA7, is the latest in a distinguished series of triennial conferences which were started in 1989 by Dr Benno Bonke, Prof Keith Millar, and Dr Bill Fitch. Bringing together clinicians, basic scientists, engineers, psychologists, and patients, it offers a unique forum to explore all aspects of perioperative awareness and depth of anaesthesia (DOA) monitoring. By chance, the meeting coincided with the publication of the B-Unaware study1—of which more later.

Where are we with DOA in early 2008? A good place to start is understanding how sedative–hypnotic drugs affect memories as they are progressively transferred from initial registration through short-term memory to long-term recall.2 Veselis and colleagues2 studied event-related potentials (ERPs) which are correlates of memory processing. Subanaesthetic doses of drug did not affect performance on the encoding task but did impair ERPs and long-term retention of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

J. R. Sneyd1,* and D. M. Mathews2

1 Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry
The John Bull Building
Tamar Science Park
Plymouth PL6 8BU
UK
2 New York, USA

* E-mail: robert.sneyd@pms.ac.uk


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