ArticleOncotarget2017
Anesthetic dreaming, anesthesia awareness and patient satisfaction after deep sedation with propofol target controlled infusion: A prospective cohort study of patients undergoing day case breast surgery.
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 49 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Propofol Dexmedetomidine Total Intravenous Anesthesia with Tumescent Anesthesia in Aesthetic surgery.Aesthetic plastic surgery · 2025Article
- Dream Experiences During Intensive Care Unit Stay: Occurrence, Content, Vividness and Associated Factors.Nursing in critical care · 2025Article
- Propofol alone versus midazolam plus propofol for sedation in outpatient endoscopic procedures: A randomized controlled trial.Journal of research in medical sciences : the official journal of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences · 2025Article
- Non-operating Room Anesthesia (NORA): A Comprehensive Review of Monitored Anesthesia Care.Cureus · 2024Review
- Anesthesia for non-traditional consciousness.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
- Bispectral Index Monitoring and Observer Rating Scale Correlate with Dreaming during Propofol Anesthesia for Gastrointestinal Endoscopies.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2021Observational
- Foundations of Human Consciousness: Imaging the Twilight Zone.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2021Article
- Awareness during emergence from anesthesia: Features and future research directions.World journal of clinical cases · 2020Review
- A new simple score for prediction of difficult laryngoscopy: the EL.GA+ score.Anaesthesiology intensive therapy · 2020Observational
- A randomized control study on anesthetic effects of flurbiprofen axetil combined with propofol on patients with liver cancer receiving microwave ablation.Pakistan journal of medical sciencesArticle
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Abstract
backgroundAnesthetic dreaming and anesthesia awareness are well distinct phenomena. Although the incidence of intraoperative awareness is more common among patients who reported a dream after surgery, the exact correlation between the two phenomena remains an unsolved rebus. The main purpose of this study was to investigate anesthetic dreaming, anesthesia awareness and psychological consequences eventually occurred under deep sedation. Intraoperative dreaming experiences were correlated with dream features in natural sleep.
methodsFifty-one patients, undergoing surgical excision of fibroadenomas under a Bispectral index-guided deep sedation anesthesia with propofol target controlled infusion, were enrolled into this prospective study. Psychological assessment was performed through the State Trait Anxiety Inventory. A questionnaire was adopted to register dreaming and anesthesia awareness. Data were collected after emergence (t0), 24 hours (t1), 1 month (t2), 6 months (t3).
resultsSix patients (12%) reported anesthetic dreaming at t0 confirming the response at each subsequent evaluation. One patient (2%) confirmed dreaming during anesthesia in all, but denied it at t0. There was a high correlation between the intraoperative dream contents and the features of dreams in natural sleep. No cases of anesthesia awareness were detected. A similar level of satisfaction was observed in dreaming and no-dreaming patients.
conclusionsAnesthetic dreaming does not seem to influence satisfaction of patients undergoing deep sedation with propofol target controlled infusion. A psychological assessment would seem to improve the evaluation of possible psychological consequences in dreamer patient.
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