Study: Anesthesia Awareness May Trigger Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
"Long-term psychological follow-up should be offered to patients who report awareness regardless of their early postoperative psychological state," suggest the researchers, who published their findings in the March issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia.
The research team surveyed patients who'd experienced awareness during a clinical trial of 2.463 surgical patients designed to study the efficacy of bispectral monitoring. Seven of the 13 patients who'd experienced awareness were still alive, and 5 of them reported symptoms of PTSD, according to the article.
It's not certain, however, that anesthesia awareness caused the PTSD in each case, writes George Mashour, MD, PhD, of the University of Michigan Medical School in an accompanying editorial. The patients in the trial were undergoing potentially stressful high-risk surgeries and may have suffered from other illness-related factors. "Medical events, such as myocardial infarction, can be associated with PTSD," he writes.
Regardless, concludes Dr. Mashour, the high rate of PTSD "reinforces the need for preventing intraoperative awareness." Blogger Labels: Anesthesia Awareness,Post Traumatic Stress Disorder,PTSD,symptoms,intraoperative awareness
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ReplyDeleteHigh percentage of patients waking up during anesthesia is at risk of developing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder especially if they felt pain. Most of these patients are hesitant to undergo sedative surgery again because of that traumatic event. Sometimes, there’s no choice especially if the life is at stake and that we have to make a choice between our life or a possible traumatic event happening again. Always look at the bright side of things for there are people whom you could depend upon for help.
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