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British Journal of Anaesthesia 2008 101(5):738-740; doi:10.1093/bja/aen280
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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

J. Ponte*

London, UK

* E-mail: zeponte@yahoo.co.uk

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Editor—I could not help noticing that not a single word can be found about the role of neuromuscular blockers in awareness under anaesthesia in either the editorial1 or in the abstracts of the 7th International Symposium on Memory and Awareness in Anaesthesia published in the June issue of the journal.2 Predictably, little progress has been made in the last 10 yr in tackling the problem of awareness under anaesthesia and skeletal muscle movement continues to be the ‘gold standard’ for detection of this embarrassing complication. However, it is apparent from what appears in the literature that the opinion formers and possibly those providing the specialist training have largely ignored many attempts, including mine in 1995,3 to alert the profession for the misuse of neuromuscular blockers. Perhaps, there is a positive side to the persistence in practice of this avoidable complication: it provides a powerful stimulus for . . . [Full Text of this Article]

G. Lynch* and I. Grant

Rotherham, UK

* E-mail: glynch@doctors.org.uk

A. Morley*

London, UK

* E-mail: andrew.morley@gstt.nhs.uk

J. R. Sneyd*

Plymouth, UK

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


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awareness of awareness
santhosh gopalakrishnan
British Journal of Anaesthesia, 10 Nov 2008 [Full text]