iPads as effective as sedatives for children before operations
Sunday, August 28, 2016 - 19:31
in Health & Medicine
New research presented at this year’s World Congress of Anaesthesiologists (WCA) in Hong Kong (Aug. 28 – Sept. 2) shows that allowing children to use iPads to distract them before surgery requiring general anaesthesia is as effective at lowering their anxiety as conventional sedatives. Furthermore, parental satisfaction and quality of anaesthesia induction was higher in […]