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Uncovering preoperative anxiety.
AANA journal, 1980The Q-Sort is one method of assessing a patient's preoperative anxieties. In this article, the authors examine the method as a simple and direct way of identifying fears which can complicate the administration of anesthesia.
G P, Haag, J A, Adamski
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Management of preoperative anxiety in children
AORN Journal, 2006Although anesthesia during surgery prevents children from recalling actual surgical events, they are subjected to stressful events while preparing for surgery. One estimate suggests that 60% of children experience significant anxiety before anesthesia induction and surgery, and literature from around the world indicates that preoperative anxiety is a ...
Victoria A, Dreger, Thomas F, Tremback
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Heart rate variability and preoperative anxiety
Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica, 1995Power spectral analysis of heart rate variability has been used to gain some understanding of the activity of the autonomic nervous system. In this study various indices of heart rate variability were related to the degree of preoperative anxiety experienced by 32 patients presenting for day case surgery.
J W, Sleigh, J D, Henderson
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Assessment and Management of Preoperative Anxiety
Journal of Voice, 2019Preoperative anxiety has the potential to alter the dynamics of an elective procedure and has been shown to detrimentally affect patients both cognitively and physiologically. If mismanaged, it can lead to essential procedures being postponed or canceled, delay postoperative recovery, and increase patients' requirements for medical intervention ...
Isabel, Tulloch, John S, Rubin
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Preoperative Anxiety Management
2018Children presenting for surgery are often significantly more anxious compared to adults. This may occur during a new exposure to an unfamiliar environment or repeat exposures to the hospital setting. Pediatric anesthesiologists must utilize a variety of creative and traditional and nontraditional strategies to help alleviate this feeling of anxiety ...
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AORN Journal, 1999
PREOPERATIVE ANXIETY IN WOMEN, A Wiens, AORN Journal, 68, July 1998, 74 ...
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PREOPERATIVE ANXIETY IN WOMEN, A Wiens, AORN Journal, 68, July 1998, 74 ...
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Preoperative Anxiety and Motives for Surgery
Psychological Reports, 1991Preoperative anxiety was assessed in 20 patients undergoing surgery for esthetic reasons and 20 other surgical patients. Patients with plastic surgery reported significantly less anxiety than patients with general surgery, as measured by the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory.
M, Jelicic, B, Bonke
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The Psychological Control of Preoperative Anxiety
Psychophysiology, 1975ABSTRACTForty healthy volunteer hospital patients who had been admitted For therapeutic abortions were given anxiety scale questionnaires during the afternoon of the day before operation. That evening. the anesthesiologist conducted either a “cursory” (brief and minimally informative) or “supportive” (long and relatively) informative with maximal ...
J G, Williams +3 more
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The Chemical Control of Preoperative Anxiety
Psychophysiology, 1975ABSTRACTThe effect of a psychoactive chemical. diazepam, on reducing physiologically disruptive anxiety in young female patients about to undergo operation was investigated. In a double‐blind study preoperative anxiety was measured by the Skin Conductance Anxiety Test (SCAT) after patients had been given either intravenous diazepam or placebo.
J G, Williams, J R, Jones, B, Williams
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Measurement tool for preoperative anxiety in young children: The yale preoperative anxiety scale
Child Neuropsychology, 1995Abstract To develop a preoperative anxiety scale (YPAS) for children undergoing surgery, 21 specific behaviors indicating anxiety were defined within five domains (activity, emotional expressivity, state of arousal, vocalization, and use of adults). A reliability Kappa analysis revealed that inter-observer agreement ranged from .66 to .94, while intra ...
Zeev N. Kain +6 more
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