Parents may not understand or recall risks associated with children's surgery

Monday, March 15, 2010 - 19:07 in Health & Medicine

Parents of children undergoing ear, nose and throat surgery do not appear to remember all of the risks of the procedures explained to them by clinicians, even when detailed surgical risk counseling and data sheets are used, according to a report in the March issue of Archives of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery.

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