Near-Painless Guidelines ; Bid to End 'Awareness' During Surgery Falls Short

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ATLANTA - A national doctors' group adopted new standards Tuesday to help prevent patients from awakening during surgery. But the physicians stopped short of embracing the use of new devices that monitor patient awareness.

The American Society of Anesthesiologists, meeting in Atlanta, approved the group's first-ever standards on preventing a rare but terrifying situation in which patients wake up during surgery and sometimes feel excruciating pain without being able to cry out.

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Near-Painless Guidelines ; Bid to End 'Awareness' During Surgery Falls Short

Such awakenings occur in one or two cases out of every 1,000, the group said. But the phenomenon received press cover...

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