BACKGROUND Anesthetic dreaming and anesthesia awareness are well distinct phenomena. Although the incidence of intraoperative awareness is more common among patients who reported a dream after surgery, the exact correlation between the two phenomena remains an unsolved rebus. The main purpose of this study was to investigate anesthetic dreaming, anesthesia awareness and psychological consequenc...

OBJECTIVE Targeted temperature management after cardiac arrest requires deep sedation to prevent shivering and discomfort. Compared to IV sedation, volatile sedation has a shorter half-life and thus may allow more rapid extubation and neurologic assessment. DESIGN Observational analysis of clinical data. SETTING University hospital, medical ICU. PATIENTS Four hundred thirty-two cardiac ar...

SUBSTANTIAL efforts have been made over the past decade to focus more attention on sedation and analgesia management in critically ill patients. Although evidence is accumulating of painful and unpleasant experiences suffered during length of stay in the intensive care unit (ICU) that can affect quality of life, even after discharge, more is also known about the impact of excessive use of sedat...

BACKGROUND It is an open question whether cognitive processes of auditory perception that are mediated by functionally different cortices exhibit the same sensitivity to sedation. The auditory event-related potentials P1, mismatch negativity (MMN), and early right anterior negativity (ERAN) originate from different cortical areas and reflect different stages of auditory processing. The P1 origi...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW The purpose of this review is to focus on recent literature about sedation or anaesthesia in paediatric MRI. Special features of the MRI working environment, recent studies about sedation or anaesthesia, and success rates and risk profiles in this setting are presented. Finally, information for physicians to decide between sedation or anaesthesia in individual situations is pr...

Deep sedation is known to be associated with poor long-term outcomes in critically ill patients, including cognitive and psychological complications and increased mortality. Yet many patients still receive high levels of sedation, particularly during the early days of their intensive care unit (ICU) stay. The eCASH (early Comfort using Analgesia, minimal Sedatives and maximal Humane care) conce...