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[ade1940]

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Hi... I have what I think is an easy question (but it baffles me)... I recently read, "complaints of pain has been reported in the literature with an incidence of 05-2%"

What the heck does 05-2% mean???

many thanks.

 

[illegallysmooth]

Hi... I have what I think is an easy question (but it baffles me)... I recently read, "complaints of pain has been reported in the literature with an incidence of 05-2%"

What the heck does 05-2% mean???

many thanks.

Seems like that's supposed to be 0.5-2%?

 

[ade1940]

Seems like that's supposed to be 0.5-2%?

I don't think so... here's the full abstract:

Abstract

The possibility that a patient during general anaesthesia is aware of the operation going on and aware of severe pain that might be remembered postoperatively must be very alarming to patients and anaesthetists alike. Furthermore, there is experimental evidence showing that conscious recall of intraoperative events is only the tip of an iceberg; it seems very probable that there is even a higher incidence of unconscious perception during general anaesthesia. Therefore, the following stages of intraoperative awareness must be distinguished: (1) conscious awareness with explicit recall and with severe pain; (2) conscious awareness with explicit recall but no complaints of pains; (3) conscious awareness without explicit recall and possible implicit recall; (4) subconscious awareness without explicit recall and possible implicit recall; (5) no awareness. The incidence of conscious awareness with explicit recall and severe pain has been estimated at less frequent than 1/3000 general anaesthetics. Conscious awareness with explicit recall but no complaints of pain has been reported in the literature with an incidence of 05-2%. With 7-72%, conscious awareness without explicit recall and possible implicit recall shows a very wide range of variation and its occurrence probably depends on the anaesthetic drugs used. Subconscious awareness with possible implicit recall has an incidence of up to 80%, but there are many methodological problems in demonstrating implicit memory of intraoperative events.

 

[Sergio99]

Hello,

It is a weird article, but I agree with illegallysmooth: it is probably a typo and means 0.5-2%.

Greetings

 

[ade1940]

Hello,

It is a weird article, but I agree with illegallysmooth: it is probably a typo and means 0.5-2%.

Greetings

thanks for the help... the reason I don't think so is that the incidence of anesthesia awareness is only .01%

 

[illegallysmooth]

This is a terribly worded article, but I don't see any other possibility besides the typo.