Memory and Awareness in Anaesthesia IV Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Memory and Awareness in Anaesthesia

The symposium seems to have been held in 1998. The 29 full papers cover monitoring the depth of anesthesia, learning and memory in anesthesia, clinical measurement and brain function, and awareness and psychological consequences. The specific topics include the auditory evoked response during propofol sedation in volunteers, implicit memory during sevoflurane anesthesia, intraoperative biscpectral index scores and implicit memory during cardiac surgery, and sleep quality following general anesthesia and the use of patient controlled analgesia. Another 14 abstracts discuss a range of topics. Distributed by World Scientific. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR