Hypnotic Effect: Inducing Unconsciousness and Emergence from Anaesthesia

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7 - Hypnotic Effect: Inducing Unconsciousness and Emergence from Anaesthesia

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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 December 2019

Sergio Vide ,

Catarina Nunes and

Pedro Amorim

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Pedro L. Gambús and

Jan F. A. Hendrickx

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Pedro L. Gambús: Affiliation:
Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, Spain
Jan F. A. Hendrickx: Affiliation:
Aalst General Hospital, Belgium

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General anaesthesia (GA) is a reversible drug-induced state of altered arousal required for more than 60,000 surgical procedures each day in the USA alone, making it one of the most common manipulations of the brain and central nervous system [1]. It comprises several specific behavioural and physiological end-points – unconsciousness, amnesia, analgesia and akinesia – with concomitant stability of the autonomic, cardiovascular, respiratory and thermoregulatory systems [2, 3].

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Targeting Physiological Systems for Optimal Effect
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