Dreaming during anaesthesia in adult patients.
Best Pract Res Clin Anaesthesiol
; 21(3): 403-14, 2007 Sep.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-17900017
ABSTRACT
Dreaming during anaesthesia is defined as any recalled experience (excluding awareness) that occurred between induction of anaesthesia and the first moment of consciousness upon emergence. Dreaming is a commonly-reported side-effect of anaesthesia. The incidence is higher in patients who are interviewed immediately after anaesthesia (approximately 22%) than in those who are interviewed later (approximately 6%). A minority of dreams, which include sensory perceptions obtained during anaesthesia, provide evidence of near-miss awareness. These patients may have risk factors for awareness and this type of dreaming may be prevented by depth of anaesthesia monitoring. Most dreaming however, occurs in younger, fitter patients, who have high home dream recall, who receive propofol-based anaesthesia and who emerge rapidly from anaesthesia. Their dreams are usually short and pleasant, are related to work, family and recreation, are not related to inadequate anaesthesia and probably occur during recovery. Dreaming is a common, fascinating, usually pleasant and harmless phenomenon.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Sleep
/
Dreams
/
Anesthesia
Type of study:
Etiology_studies
/
Qualitative_research
/
Risk_factors_studies
Limits:
Adult
/
Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
Best Pract Res Clin Anaesthesiol
Journal subject:
ANESTESIOLOGIA
Year:
2007
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Australia