On no man's land: Subjective experiences during unresponsive and responsive sedative states induced by four different anesthetic agents.
Consciousness and Cognition November 1, 2021 Linda Radek, Lauri Koskinen, Nils Sandman et al.
To understand how anesthetics with different molecular mechanisms affect consciousness, we explored subjective experiences recalled after responsive and unresponsive sedation induced with equisedative doses of dexmedetomidine, propofol, sevoflurane, and S-ketamine in healthy male participants (N = 140). The anesthetics were administered in experimental setting using target-controlled infusion...