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anaesthetic awareness

noun

  1. the gaining of consciousness by an anaesthetized patient during a surgical operation
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Despite his organisation’s concern about anaesthetic awareness, he did not want the issue to be blown out of proportion: “I would also like to say that there is a potential for this subject of awareness to be sensationalised. We are concerned that patients become unduly frightened during what is already a very emotional time for them.”

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