View clinical trials related to Perioperative Anxiety.
Filter by:Anxiety is a transient emotional state characterized by feelings of tension, apprehension, nervousness, fear, and heightened activation of the autonomic nervous system in response to a specific current or potential event or situation. Music therapy is a cost-effective and safe intervention applied to health care, that has been incorporated into different branches of medicine, including anesthesiology, showing economic benefits and as an adjunct to pharmacological therapy, allowing the use of lower doses of perioperative drugs, thus reducing their deleterious effects. The main objective of this randomized clinical trial is to evaluate whether the application of music during the perioperative period reduces perioperative anxiety in patients undergoing general and digestive surgery under general anesthesia.Patients between 18 and 60 years of age, classified according to the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) I-IV, scheduled for general surgery and who have signed the informed consent, will be randomized to receive music therapy in the immediate perioperative period or not. Perioperative anxiety, stay in the PACU, incidence of postoperative pain and intraoperative opioid consumption will be compared between both groups.
The reduction of preoperative anxiety in children and adolescents before an elective surgical procedure is an important clinical question in perioperative care. Adequate, age-appropriate patient information about the processes of the inpatient stay plays an important role in order to address possible worries and fears to reduce. The medium video is popular with children and adolescents today and offers the possibility of an easily understandable and vivid presentation of information.
The first goal of this study is to compare the efficacy and safety between anxiolysis by multimedia-distraction with an IPAD versus anxiolysis by premedication with midazolam prior to the induction. Secondly to evaluate the need for midazolam-premedication in pediatric day-care patients induced by inhalational anesthesia.
We will investigate whether the use of Virtual Reality (VR) preoperatively and intraoperatively can help treat pain and anxiety, as measured by patient feedback, vital signs trends, and the amounts of anesthetics, pain medications and anxiolytics used during surgical procedures. The VR intervention will be studied during short hand surgeries normally performed using local anesthesia and sedation.
Seven French university hospitals will participate in this multicentric prospective, blinded and randomized study. The investigators designed 3 study groups: Lorazepam 2.5mg, Placebo (microcrystalline celluloses) and no premedication at all. The third group (no premedication) is necessary in order to evaluate a placebo response, which may be significant on anxiety level and patients perceptions of care. It was calculated that 969 patients had to be included in order to obtain a 5 point difference between groups on the EVAN score with 80 % statistical power, leading to the inclusion of 1200 patients with an estimated maximum dropout rate of 15 %. All adults below 70 years and scheduled for elective surgery under general anesthesia can be included after information by an anesthesiologist in charge of the study and written informed consent. Non inclusion criterions are: a weight below 45 Kg, a counter indication to benzodiazepine, surgeries that could impair cognitive functions (cardiac or neurologic surgery), usual use of neuroleptics or lithium, drug addiction or former cognitive disease. The technique of anesthesia will be decided by the attending anesthesiologist, who will be unaware of the premedication technique, independently of the study protocol.