2016
DOI: 10.4103/0259-1162.165506
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Delayed recovery from anesthesia: A postgraduate educational review

Abstract: Delayed awakening from anesthesia remains one of the biggest challenges that involve an anesthesiologist. With the general use of fast-acting anesthetic agents, patients usually awaken quickly in the postoperative period. The time to emerge from anesthesia is affected by patient factors, anesthetic factors, duration of surgery, and painful stimulation. The principal factors responsible for delayed awakening following anesthesia are anesthetic agents and medications used in the perioperative period. Nonpharmaco… Show more

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“…Delayed recovery of behavioral responsiveness in Drosophila may therefore be a promising model for studying cognitive impairments following general anesthesia in humans, which also often follow a longer time course than simply regaining consciousness. 40 A full restoration of presynaptic functions across the brain is probably a complex problem in any animal, and the extremely conserved nature of synaptic release mechanisms suggests this might be a common mechanism.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Delayed recovery of behavioral responsiveness in Drosophila may therefore be a promising model for studying cognitive impairments following general anesthesia in humans, which also often follow a longer time course than simply regaining consciousness. 40 A full restoration of presynaptic functions across the brain is probably a complex problem in any animal, and the extremely conserved nature of synaptic release mechanisms suggests this might be a common mechanism.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Delayed recovery from anaesthesia was multifactorial and anaesthetic agents may not be absolutely the offender. This included patient factors like genetic variation, body habitus and cognitive status or metabolic factors like hypothermia and hypothyroidism or surgical/anaesthetic factors like duration of surgery and combined regional anaesthesia with anaesthetic drugs which was of possible correlation with our results; presence of pain may enhance arousal whereas somnolence may be maintained with regional anaesthetic techniques [50].…”
Section: Case Nomentioning
confidence: 94%
“…Current research indicates that both the central nervous and autonomic systems are related to the depth of anaesthesia (DoA) of a patient [2]. Excessively deep or shallow DoA can result in harmful complications for patients; a DoA that is too shallow increases the risk of intraoperative awareness [3], and a DoA that is too deep can cause delayed recovery [4], cognitive dysfunction, and even death [5]. Therefore, accurate DoA monitoring is crucial to reduce the complications associated with overdose or insufficiency of anaesthetics and guarantee the safety and quality of anaesthesia.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%