Cognitive failures after general anaesthesia for day-case surgery
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Cognitive failures after general anaesthesia for day-case surgery.
Patients are normally thought to have recovered from general anaesthesia within a few hours after day-case surgery. Previous recovery studies using objective psychometric tests showed a return to baseline values within this period. Nevertheless, patients are advised about what activities they should not undertake in the subsequent 24 h because it is feared that the residual anaesthetic effects ...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Anaesthesia
سال: 1996
ISSN: 0007-0912
DOI: 10.1093/bja/76.2.194