Fatores de risco para o despertar intraoperatório

Abstract

Summary: Nunes RR, Porto VC, Miranda VT, Andrade NQ, Carneiro LMM -Risk Factors for Intraoperative Awareness. Background and objectives:The intraoperative awareness is an adverse event in the general anesthesia, and may occur in approximately 20,000 cases per year, which justifies the study of the risk factors for this event. The objective of this study was to review this subject in order to reduce the incidence of intraoperative awareness and psychological sequelae incurring from this incident, which may result in post-traumatic stress disorder with negative repercussions on the surgical patient social, psychic and functional development.