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When general anesthesia or sedation, the patient immediately loses consciousness in seconds. Most patients admitted for fear of worrying keeps died alias drugged sleep.

The survey, conducted at the University of Salford in England found 85 percent of patients who performed the operation claimed anxious when going under anesthesia (general anesthesia).

The concern felt by the patient will die during sleep, wakes up after surgery, woke up during surgery and anxious waiting for the doors to open surgery.

“The survey highlights the importance of patients receiving adequate information about anesthesia before surgery to reduce patient anxiety,” said Mark Mitchell, a professor at the College of Health and Social Affairs University Salford, United Kingdom as reported by Topnews.

The researchers suggest that provision of information to be received rather general anesthesia patients so that patients can remove the fear of going under anesthesia.

The researchers conducted a study of 460 patients to perform certain operations in the UK with age range 18-75 years, mean age 46 years and 59 percent of respondents were women.

This has required operations from gynecology, general surgery, orthopedics, urology, ear, nose and throat surgery.

Patients were asked to indicate their level of anxiety. Result, there are three concerns that make the patient extremely restless mind I can not wake up (26 percent) died in his sleep (25 percent) and wake up when in operation (20 percent).