Hormone treatment eases post-surgery distress in children
Wednesday, July 1, 2009 - 19:42
in Health & Medicine
A scary unknown for many children, the prospect of surgery can cause intense preoperative anxiety. While some amount of stress is normal, what many parents do not know is that extreme anxiety before surgery can contribute to the occurrence of emergence delirium, a distressing incidence of acute behavioural changes experienced when 'waking up' from anaesthesia...
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