Download – Delayed Awakening from Anaesthesia

At the end of anaesthesia and surgery the patient should be awake or easily rousable, protecting their airway, maintaining adequate ventilation and with their pain under control. Time to emerge from anaesthesia is very variable and depends on many factors related to the patient, the type of anaesthetic given and the length of surgery.

Jyothi Radhakrishnan, Sujatha Jesudasan and Rebecca Jacob