Agitated emergence

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As emergence delirium or agitation on awakening after a general anesthesia is called a faulty recovery behavior after a general anesthesia . Other terms are: Emergence Delirium , Emergence Agitation , Emergence Excitement , Postanesthetic Excitement . In children it can be recorded with the pediatric anesthesia emergence delirium scale .

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  1. N. Sikich, J. Lerman: Development and psychometric evaluation of the pediatric anesthesia emergence delirium scale. In: Anesthesiology. 2004; 100, pp. 1138-1145. PMID 15114210 journals.lww.com ( Memento of May 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive )