Giving toys to children reduces their anxiety about receiving premedication for surgery

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1070-1072

  Golden, Leonard ^a,b   Pagala, Murali ^a   Sukhavasi, Sujatha ^a   Nagpal, Dheeraj ^a   Ahmad, Ayeesha ^a   Mahanta, Aruna ^a  

^a MAIMONIDES MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b JACOBI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MIDAZOLAM;

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MODIFIED YALE PREOPERATIVE ANXIETY SCALE; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PREMEDICATION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM;

EID: 33645511506     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ane.0000198332.51475.50     Document Type: Article

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