That looks like an interesting paper! Will definitely have a read.

Well, i figure if we can have implicit memory/recall, why not implicit amnesia! 🤷‍♂️😂

Occasionally. And when I have, it’s been useful.

Also, consciousness is a slippery concept without an agreed definition/mechanism, hence Chalmers “hard problem of consciousness”. Amnesia however is easier to define and measure and a lack of it is what we actually look for when assessing patients post-op or testing things like BIS and Entropy. 2/2

I’m probably being a bit pedantic/cheeky (but hey, i'm an anaesthetist!😂), but when I say amnesia, I mean both a-explicit-mnesia and a-implicit-mnesia, and it seems that it's the absence of these amnesias that causes the clinical problems rather than the presence of consciousness. 1/2

I will defer to the late, great, Edmond "Ted" Eger II and say that, strictly speaking, you really only need immobility and amnesia (not unconsciousnes) for it to qualify as (general) "anaesthesia". Blunting of the autonomic reflex is desirable but not necessary. 😀
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Important to remember that most inhaled agents provide some degree of muscle relaxation. However the dramatic shift to TIVA is making that less relevant.

I assume here that we're talking about "general" anaesthesia as opposed to "local", "regional" or "neuraxial" anaesthesia?