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

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