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Review Case Reports
Transient fixation on a non-native language associated with anaesthesia.
- C S Webster and R O S Grieve.
- Department of Anaesthesiology, School of Medicine, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92-019, Auckland, New Zealand. cw@clear.net.nz
- Anaesthesia. 2005 Mar 1;60(3):283-6.
AbstractWe report a patient with the unusual language disturbance of transient fixation on a non-native language after otherwise uneventful general anaesthesia. The patient was unable to speak his native language for a period of 5-10 min, despite a desire to do so. He fully and spontaneously recovered from the episode. The phenomenon raises a number of interesting questions about the nature of human language, anaesthesia and consciousness. We discuss our patient in the context of some of these questions and present a review of three similar patients reported in the anaesthetic literature.
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