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In the Media

  1. Willwerth J. What's up, doc? It's every surgery patient's nightmare: you're awake enough to feel the knife but not enough to scream.Time. 1997;150(18):96. [publisher link]
  2. Boodman SG. Wake-up call. Washington Post. November 23, 2004: HE01. [publisher archive link]
  3. Travis, J. Comfortably Numb: Anesthetics are slowly giving up the secrets of how they work. Science News Magazine. 2004;166(1):8. [publisher link]
  4. Hayden, T. Hidden Specialties: Meet the doctors of sleep, images, and microscopes. U.S. News & World Report “America’s Best Hospitals”, July 4, 2004:3. [publisher link]
  5. Bakalar, N. Anesthesia, without a knockout punch. New York Times. July 27, 2004:F6. [publisher permalink]
  6. Hallinan, JT. Once seen as risky, one group of doctors changes its ways. Anesthesiologists now offer model of how to improve safety, lower premiums. Wall Street Journal. June 21, 2005:A1.
  7. Comarow, A. Down but not out: Doctors disagree how best to keep patients from awakening during surgery. US. News & World Report. July 31, 2005. [publisher link]
  8. American Society of Anesthesiologists. Report on awareness under general anesthesia says anesthesiologists have multiple tools and approaches for minimizing risks. Tuesday, October 25, 2005. [news release link]
    • American Society of Anesthesiologists Task Force on Intraoperative Awareness. Practice advisory for intraoperative awareness and brain function monitoring: a report by the american society of anesthesiologists task force on intraoperative awareness. Anesthesiology. 2006;104(4):847-64. [publisher link]
  9. Wakin, DJ. Would You Like Abba or Verdi With Your Kidney Transplant? New York Times. June 10, 2006:A1. [publisher link]
  10. Aziz, M. Operating Theater: Songs in the Key of Knife. Letter to the Editor. New York Times. June 13, 2006:A22. [publisher permalink]
  11. Awareness Under Anesthesia Less Common Than Thought. HealthDay News. Forbes.com. January 5, 2007.
  12. Orser BA. Lifting the fog around anesthesia. Scientific American. June 2007:54-61. [publisher link]
  13. Childers MA. Doctors Tracking ‘Anesthesia Awareness’ ‘Extraordinarily Rare’ Condition
    Leaves Patients Aware During Surgery. CBS Chicago 2 News. November 30, 2007 . [publisher link]
  14. Davis R. Under the knife yet wide awake. USA Today. December 4, 2007. [publisher link]
  15. Stegmeir M. Awareness under general anesthesia rare but traumatic. Waterloo / Cedar Falls Courier. December 10, 2007. [publisher link]
  16. Black C. UW seeks to prevent ‘awareness’ in surgery. Seattle Post-Intelligencer. February
    4, 2008. [publisher link]