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Long-term psychosocial outcomes after intraoperative awareness with recall.

AbstractBACKGROUND:
Posttraumatic stress disorder, a common psychiatric disorder in the general population, may follow a traumatic experience of awareness with recall during general anesthesia.
METHODS:
We conducted a matched cohort design with 9 subjects after intraoperative awareness with recall during general anesthesia. A psychiatric diagnostic interview and questionnaire were performed on 9 matched controls and 9 subjects, a median of 17.2 years from their documented awareness episode. The subjects and the matched controls completed a battery of questionnaires related to psychosocial well-being, after which they participated in a diagnostic Structured Clinical Interview for Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition Axis I Disorders.
RESULTS:
Patients with awareness did not seem to differ from their matched controls in subsequent psychosocial outcome, psychiatric morbidity, or quality of life.
CONCLUSIONS:
We found no indication that intraoperative awareness with recall had any deleterious long-term effects on patients' psychosocial outcome.
AuthorsTanja Laukkala, Seppo Ranta, Johanna Wennervirta, Markus Henriksson, Kirsi Suominen, Markku Hynynen
JournalAnesthesia and analgesia (Anesth Analg) Vol. 119 Issue 1 Pg. 86-92 (Jul 2014) ISSN: 1526-7598 [Electronic] United States
PMID24945123 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
Topics
  • Adult
  • Cohort Studies
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Intraoperative Awareness (psychology)
  • Male
  • Mental Recall
  • Middle Aged
  • Quality of Life
  • Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic (psychology)

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