Use of Handheld Audiovisual Devices to Treat Pediatric Preoperative Anxiety
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Conditions studied: Pediatric Preoperative Anxiety
In brief
Anxiety in children undergoing surgery is a central concern to both parents and healthcare workers, including nurses, surgeons, and anesthesiologists. It has been ranked by anesthesiologists as one of the top five important low-morbidity anesthesia outcomes (1). This study would determine whether such devices would decrease anxiety in children prior to induction of anesthesia for outpatient surgery. Two hundred children ages 2-12 will be enrolled.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT02286674
- Run by
- McLaren Health Care
- People needed
- 200
- Starts
- 2014-11-01
- Expected to finish
- 2017-01-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2022-08-25
Who can join
Age: 2 and older, up to 12. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Ages 2-12
- Outpatient surgery procedures
- ASA I of II (No or mild systemic disease)
- Parental/guardian ability to understand and willingness to sign written informed consent
- Patient assent to use tablet, if they are randomized to the study group
- Anesthetic plan includes sevoflurane inhalation induction as determined by the anesthesiologist
You may not qualify if…
- Psychoactive medications (e.g. antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, anxiolytics, antidepressants, narcotics)
- Diagnosed psychiatric disease
- Developmental disabilities
- History of photosensitive seizures
- Patient requiring sedative or narcotic medications prior to induction of anesthesia, as determined by the anesthesiologist.
- Parental/guardian inability to understand or refusal to sign written informed consent
- Patient unwillingness or inability to use tablet
- Anesthetic plan does not include sevoflurane induction, as determined by anesthesiologist.
- Non English speaking patient and/or parent/guardian
Where it is running
- McLaren Greater Lansing Hospital — Lansing, Michigan, United States
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