Going under the knife is often cited as one of the most chilling experiences that a person can go through. At least, it would be if you were awake during the invasive procedure. With the use of anesthetics being accepted practice for a wide variety of types of surgery, from the external to the invasive, most people are calmly asleep while being cut open. However, there are those rare times when the general anesthetic isn’t powerful or doesn’t last long enough for the doctors to complete the surgery before the patient becomes wide awake and fully aware of what is going on. This condition, anesthesia awareness, is more common than one would initially assume.
Take a moment and assume that there are eight million people being operated on during any given year. Out of those eight million, anywhere between 20,000 to 40,000 will likely undergo the traumatic experience of waking up during their own surgery, experiencing the horror of anesthesia awareness for as long as the procedure is being conducted. Anywhere from 30 to 50% of those will actually experience symptoms similar to extreme anxiety, typically accompanied by acutely feeling anything and everything that...
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