New York—Preoperative anxiety, measured using the modified Yale Preoperative Anxiety Scale (mYPAS), can predict rates of emergence delirium, according to a new study.
“This study is important because early identification of these at-risk patients can alert the anesthesiologist to appropriately and preemptively medicate patients,” said Ali Atoot, a fourth-year medical student at St. George’s University in Grenada, West Indies, and the lead author of the study. “The