Anesthesia awareness

Rarity: Common

The most frequent rarity: most Wikipedia articles become Commons.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

Class

Notion

Domain

Science and technology

In collections

Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

Awareness under anesthesia, also referred to as intraoperative awareness or accidental awareness during general anesthesia (AAGA), is a rare complication of general anesthesia wherein patients regain varying levels of consciousness during their surgical procedures without becoming aggressive or dangerous.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Anesthesia awareness”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia