MUSC Professor Discusses Rarity Of Anesthesia Awareness

Professor of Anesthesiology Orin Guidry, MD, from the Medical University of South Carolina was featured in a recent USA Today article discussing the growing concern of anesthesia awareness occurring with the release of the new film Awake starring Hayden Christensen and Jessica Alba, where a patient experiences consciousness during surgery. Intraoperative awareness occurs when a patient becomes conscious but remains paralyzed during an operation. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Pain / Anesthetics on December 15th, 2007