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Some patients 'awake' during surgery
More than 300 people a year in the UK and Ireland report they have been conscious during surgery - despite being given general anaesthesia. In the largest study of its kind, scientists suggests this happens in one in every 19,000 operations. They found episodes were more likely when women were given general anaesthesia for Caesarean sections or patients were given certain drugs.
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It would be such a nightmare to wake up to a surgeon cutting and moving around my innards!
Yes it would..And no way to tell them you are awake!
Yeah, since essentially the only thing that's awake is the brain, everything else is paralyzed...