10 Percent of Patients Under Anesthesia ‘Conscious’: Study

An international study finds one in ten patients under general anaesthetics are conscious of outside stimuli.iStock/Thinkstock

An international study has found that about one in 10 patients, or 10 percent, of those who undergo general anaesthesia, were conscious of outside stimuli, shedding light on the medical phenomenon of ‘connected consciousness.’

“The data from the study has given us a crucial starting point in improving our understanding of ‘connected consciousness,’” said Prof. Robert Sanders from the University of Sydney.