Waking Up During Anesthetic - Anesthesia Awareness During Surgery

Anesthesia awareness, or unintended intra-operative awareness occurs during general anesthesia, on the operating table, when the patient has not been given enough of the general anesthetic to render the patient unconscious during general anesthesia.   These articles will tell you all about waking up during surgery and experiences of what anesthesia awareness feels like.

Find out why some people wake up during surgery - https://theconversation.edu.au/why-some-people-wake-up-during-surgery-7059

Read about this person who woke up during an operation - http://vitals.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/04/26/11413296-man-wakes-during-surgery-my-worst-nightmare?lite

This man tells of his experience waking up during surgery - http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/man-wakes-pain-mid-surgery-unable-doctors-stop-operating-article-1.1067618

In this article the woman talks about her anesthesia awareness and being able to feel the surgeon operating on her - http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,453926,00.html

The woman in this article explains how she could feel and hear things while under anesthesia / anesthetic - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-537510/I-awake-feel--I-paralysed-speak-Pass-scalpel-said-surgeon-.html

This article explores how likely it is to wake up during surgery - http://www.news-medical.net/news/2008/02/17/35286.aspx


- also read Waking Up During Autopsy and Waking Up At Your Own Funeral.