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A new report in England that thousands of patients a year up during an operation. The report is from two leading organisations for anaesthetists – people who put us to sleep before surgery. It said: "At least 150, and possibly several thousand, patients a year conscious while they are operations." Doctors say it is very rare for someone to wake up during major surgery. One doctor says it in one in every 19,000 operations. Patients who wake up on the operating table having feelings of fear and panic. A patient cannot the doctors if he/she wakes up because the drugs their muscles so they cannot move or .

Researchers at details from around three million operations in public hospitals in the U.K. and Ireland. They used the data to areas that could be during an operation. They made a list of 64 recommendations to try and accidents happening in operating theatres. The most basic recommendation for doctors to use an anaesthesia checklist before each operation. This could mistakes made by doctors and make sure the patient has the correct levels of the correct drugs. They also recommend a monitor so doctors if the patient wakes up and cannot . A professor said: "I hope this report will anaesthetists pay even greater attention to preventing episodes of awareness."