Timeline: What If You Wake Up During Surgery

If you have a major surgery, you most likely will receive general anesthesia and be unconscious during the operation. This means you will have no awareness of the procedure once the anesthesia takes control, and you won’t remember it afterward. Very rarely — in only one or two of every 1,000 medical procedures involving general anesthesia — a patient may become aware or conscious. The condition, called anesthesia awareness. Here is what happens if you wake up during surgery.


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