Open AccessPreoperative anxiety in patients selecting either general or regional anesthesia for elective cesarean section
Author(s) -
Darshana Maheshwari,
Samina Ismail
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of anaesthesiology-clinical pharmacology/journal of anaesthesiology clinical pharmacology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 2231-2730
pISSN - 0970-9185
DOI - 10.4103/0970-9185.155148
Subject(s) - medicine , anxiety , elective cesarean section , visual analogue scale , anesthesia , demographics , elective surgery , pregnancy , psychiatry , genetics , demography , sociology , biology
We aimed to measure the frequency of preoperative anxiety in patients undergoing elective cesarean section (CS) and its impact on patients decision regarding the choice of anesthesia.