Acta anaesthesiologica Scandinavica
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Acta Anaesthesiol Scand · Aug 2009
Multicenter Study Clinical TrialThe incidence of intra-operative awareness during general anesthesia in China: a multi-center observational study.
The incidence of awareness in patients undergoing general anesthesia is 0.1-0.2% in Western countries. The medical literatures about awareness during general anesthesia are still rare in China, but some previous studies have reported a higher incidence (1.4-6%) of intra-operative awareness. To find out the reason why the incidence reported in China is much higher than that in Western countries, we performed a prospective, multicenter, non-randomized observational study to determine the true incidence of intra-operative awareness in China. ⋯ The incidence of intra-operative awareness in China is approximately 0.41%, two to three times higher than that widely cited in Western countries. Inappropriately light anesthesia, and the population proportion of surgery and general anesthesia in China may account for the difference. (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier, NCT00693875.).