Revista española de anestesiología y reanimación
-
Rev Esp Anestesiol Reanim · Jun 1998
Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter Study Clinical Trial[Explicit and implicit memory during inhalation and intravenous anesthesia].
Patients rarely report memory or knowledge of surgery after general anesthesia. During apparently adequate surgical anesthesia, however, information processing of high level functions, such as language comprehension and learning, can continue unconsciously. Our objective is to assess whether different anesthetic techniques (two inhalational and two intravenous) guarantee the absence of both types of memory. ⋯ Explicit memory was absent with all four anesthetic techniques used in our study. Implicit memory was more difficult to inhibit, however, with isoflurane/N2O.