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  • Why people who like talking to patients should go into Anesthesiology

    Posted on July 10th, 2011 dabao No comments

    Cool study I came across in my reading by Egbert et al called “The Value of the preoperative visit by the anesthetist” which showed that a comparison of two groups of patients 1) those who received pentobarbital (a sedative) and 2) those who just had a preop visit by an anesthesiologist the group with the preop visit had lower rates of drowsiness (26% compared to 30%), nervousness (40% compared to 61%) and higher rates of feeling adequately prepared for their surgery (65%> 48%) and that doing both doesn’t really help you too much (people feel about the same level of nervousness and adequate preparedness while feeling more drowsy)

    Cool eh!?

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