Delayed Emergence from Anesthesia: What We Know and How We Act.

ABSTRACT: The emergence from anesthesia is the stage of general anesthesia featuring the patient's progression from the unconsciousness status to wakefulness and restoration of consciousness. This complex process has precise neurobiology which differs from that of induction. Despite the medications commonly used in anesthesia allow recovery in a few minutes, a delay in waking up from anesthesia, called delayed emergence, may occur. This phenomenon is associated with delays in the operating room, and an overall increase in costs. Together with the emergence delirium, the phenomenon represents a manifestation of inadequate emergence. Nevertheless, in delayed emergence, the transition from unconsciousness to complete wakefulness usually occurs along a normal trajectory, although slowed down. On the oth

SUBMITTER: Cascella M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7652217 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature