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The Isolate Is Forearm Technique
This again is an important issue in anesthesia. We talk about accidental awareness under general anesthesia, and that's where someone is unintentionally awake. Now, that doesn't happen very often at all, and we have monitoring that we can use to look at the patient. It must be a very serious thing to need to avoid. I imagine quite life threatening if somebody were to wake up, while they're having major abdominal surgery. So obviously we do everything we can to avoid that, and as I say, it is very rare, so I want the public to be reassured.
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