© The Board of Management and Trustees of the British Journal of Anaesthesia 2004
Editorial III: Remembering awareness
Penninsula Medical School, Plymouth, UK E-mail: robert.sneyd@pms.ac.uk
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This edition of the British Journal of Anaesthesia includes abstracts from the Sixth International Symposium on Memory and Awareness in Anaesthesia, which was held in Hull during June 2004. These symposia have a distinguished pedigree going back to the 1980s when Dr Benno Bonke joined with Professor Keith Millar and Dr William Fitch to plan the First International Symposium on Memory and Awareness, which took place in Glasgow, Scotland in 1989. This and subsequent meetings have channelled and developed critical thinking on consciousness, memory, and information processing in the perioperative period. The 2004 symposium coincided with the publication in the Lancet of an important paper by Myles and colleagues, who, for the first time, demonstrated in a prospective, randomized controlled trial that the use of intraoperative depth of anaesthesia monitoring substantially reduced (by 82%) the instance of
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