Objective To examine the effectiveness of Audiovisual (AV) interventions at reducing
preoperative anxiety and its associated outcomes in children undergoing elective surgery …

Background Virtual reality (VR) has been used successfully in medicine both as a distraction
tool during procedures, and as an acclimatisation tool to prepare for a procedure or …

Background Anesthesia and surgery are common sources of anxiety and stressful
experiences in children. This unpleasant sensation depends on several factors. This study …

Background: Preoperative anxiety has adverse effects on children and negative impacts on
postoperative rehabilitation. Anesthesiologists can accurately identify children with …

Perioperative anxiety has been associated with adverse clinical outcomes such as
emergence delirium, increased analgesic requirements and negative postoperative …

BACKGROUND: The modified Yale Preoperative Anxiety Scale (mYPAS) is the current
“criterion standard” for assessing child anxiety during induction of anesthesia and has been …

BACKGROUND: Perioperative pediatric anxiety is common and can have a negative
psychological impact on children undergoing surgery and anesthesia. Studies have shown …

Context Early pulmonary infection in children with cystic fibrosis leads to increased morbidity
and mortality. Despite wide use of oropharyngeal cultures to identify pulmonary infection …

BACKGROUND: The anxiolytic efficacy of video watching, in the absence of parents, during
the mask induction of anesthesia in young children with high separation anxiety has not …

Background Children undergoing surgery generally experience anxiety during the
perioperative period, which could impact the surgical outcome, cause long-term …