Open AccessAnesthesiologist's role in relieving patient's anxiety
Author(s) -
Brij Mohan,
Rajan Kumar,
Joginder Pal Attri,
Veena Chatrath,
Neeru Bala
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
al-banǧ. maqālāt wa abḥāṯ fī al-taẖdīr wa-al-in’āš
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 0259-1162
DOI - 10.4103/0259-1162.194576
Subject(s) - medicine , anxiety , elective surgery , anesthesia , test (biology) , visual analogue scale , anesthetic , surgery , psychiatry , paleontology , biology
Anesthesia and surgery have proved to be highly anxiety provoking and with the rise of elective surgery, its aspect of patient's experience has become prominent in time. However, our fault as anesthesiologists is that we have not made people get versed with what we people as anesthesiologist do in the operating room. Hence, keeping in view all this, a study was carried out, in which video information/images regarding anesthesia and surgical procedure was shown to patients on PowerPoint Presentation. Different images showing previous patient's hospital journey were shown to educate patients.