Cheryl Chow, MS
Vancouver—A simple, yet effective interactive app—dubbed “Story-Telling Medicine”—appears to effectively reduce preoperative anxiety in children.
“Preoperative anxiety … is associated with many adverse postoperative outcomes,” said Cheryl Chow, MS, a doctoral candidate at McMaster University, in Hamilton, Ontario. “What’s more, children who are anxious have problems with anesthetic induction, postoperative emergence