What is anesthesia recall?
Anesthesia recall occurs when a patient undergoing general anesthesia for a procedure is conscious during some part of the operation and has memory of the incident. In general this is a very rare occurrence. There are several instances where awareness is more likely, but still rare. These include, trauma patients undergoing general anesthesia and patients undergoing general anesthesia for emergency caesarian section. In the past, patients undergoing general anesthesia for heart surgery were at an increased risk for awareness, but this risk has decreased with new techniques. For the general population, the risk of recall or awareness is very small.
