Fear and Anaesthesia: a Cross-sectional Study
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Dental and Medical Sciences (IOSR-JDMS) - Year 2018, Vol 17, Issue 9
Abstract
Fear connected to anaesthesia has lead to majority of patients from being tentative to undergo routine as well as life saving surgical procedures. Fear and anxiety coupled with the thought of surgical events causes many endocrine as well as hemodynamic instabilities. To evaluate this we formed a question bank which was provided to 400 patients during pre anaesthetic checkups , which included patient demographics, their fears pertaining anaesthesia and previous exposure to anaesthesia. Eighty four percent were subjected to preoperative fear , with pain during surgical procedure being most common at 80%, followed by intra operative awareness (71%) and needle pricks (66%). There are very noteworthy predictors as females experienced more fear and so did those above age of 45 years. We suggest adequate counselling and management of the patients pharmacologically earlier to the procedure as effective steps in gaining trust and relieving anxiety in patient.
Authors and Affiliations
Dr. Abhinav Pai, Dr. Deependra kamble
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