Pre-surgical Anxiety in Children
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Ansiedad preoperatoria, cirugÃa, niñosAbstract
Anxiety is a feeling that can be intensely felt by children, even more when they are submitted to situations of tension. This review aims at deepening into anxiety as a characteristic and state in hospitalized children and adolescents to undergo some kind of surgical procedure. An anxiety state is used to develop in the pre-operative period, which triggers in the body a sort of response that can be comprised into the general reaction toward stress. Thus, it is necessary the individual consideration before the statistical one. For the pediatric patients as well as the adults react in a different fashion, depending on their personal history, educational level, cultural background and their relationships with support individuals.Downloads
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4. Londsdale M, Hutchinson GL Patients's desire for information about anaesthesia. Anaesthesia 1991; 46: 410-412.
5. Badner NH, Nielson WR, Munk S, Kwiatkowska C, Gelp AW Preoperative anxiety: detection and contributing factors. Can J Anesth 1990; 37: 444-447.
6. Shevde K, Panagopoulos G A survey of 80 patients's knowledge, attitudes, and concerns regarding anesthesia. Anesth Analg 1991; 73: 190-198.
7. Marco Sanjuan JC, Bondia Gimeno A, Perena Soriano MJ, Martínez Bazán R, Guillén Cantín A, Mateo Aguado JM et al Estudio del malestar psicológico y del miedo preoperatorio en pacientes quirúrgicos. Rev Esp Anestesiol Reanim 1999; 46: 191-196.
8. Nishiyama T, Matsukawa T, Hanaoka K The effects of age and gender on the optimal premedication dose of intramuscular midazolam. Anesth Analg 1998; 86: 1103-1108.
9. Gomar Sancho C Ansiedad y cirugía. En: Ballus Pascual C, editores. Coloquios en: ansiedad. Barcelona: Doyma,1987; 8.
10. Kanto J, Scheinin M Biochemical assessment of preoperative stress: a study with diazepam and measurement of monoamine metabolites and catecholamines in cerebrospinal fluid and plasma. Br J Anaesth 1991; 66: 587-590.
11. Domar A, Everett L, Myra G Preoperative anxiety: is it a predictable ently? Anesth Analg 1989; 69: 763-767.
12. White PF Pharmacologia and clinical aspects of preoperative medication. Anest Analg 1986; 65: 963-974.
13. Maranets I, Kain ZN Preoperative anxiety and intraoperative anesthetic requirements. Anesth Analg 1999; 89: 1346-1351.
14. Spielberg CD, Gorsuch RL, Lushene R STAI Manual for the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory. Palo Alto, California: Consulting Psychologist Press, 1970.
15. Mackenzie JW Day case anaesthesia and anxiety. Anaesthesia 1989; 44: 437-440.
16. Kiefer RT, Weindler J, Ruprecht KW The endocrine stress response after oral premedication with low-dose midazolam for intraocular surgery in retrobulbar anaesthesia. Eur J Ophtalmol 1998; 8: 239-245.
17. McCleane GJ, Farcsi BCH, Watters Ch Pre-operative anxiety and serum potassium. Anaesthesia 1990; 45: 583-585.
18. Biebuyck JF The metabolic response to stress: an overview and update. Anesthesiology 1990; 308-327.
19. Flórez J, Armijo JA, Mediavilla A Farmacología humana. Pamplona: EUNSA, 1989.
20. Carabine UA, Milligan KR, Moore JA Adrenergic modulation of preoperative anxiety: a comparison of temazepam, clonidine and timolol. Anesth Analg 1991; 73: 633-637.
21. Jackobsen CJ, Blom L, Brondbjerg M Effect of metoprolol and diazepam on pre-operative anxiety. Anaesthesia 1990; 45: 40-43.
22. Puig MM Agonistas alfa 2-adrenérgicos: nueva generación de anestesicos/analgésicos. Rev Esp Anestesiol REanim 1994; 41: 75-76.
23. Aguilera A, Martínez A Benzodiacepinas y antagonistas. En: Castillo C, Castaño A, Villalonga A, Gomar C, editores. Farmacología en anestesiología. Madrid: Ergón, 1995; 67-85.
24. Mendl G Léffet de l'entretien préanesthésique sur l'anxieté avant des interventions mineures. Cah d'Anesthésiol 1990; 38: 237-242.
25. Moerman N, Van Dam FS, Muller MJ, Oosting H The Amsterdam Preoperative Anxiety and Information Scale (APAIS). Anesth Analg 1996; 82: 445-451.
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