27Feb 2017

MEASUREMENT OF PREOPERATIVE ANXIETY AND DETECTION OF PATIENTS? ANESTHETIC CONCERNS USING VAS.

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Background: Preoperative anxiety is unpleasant feeling; it is considered to be normal event in patients waiting for surgery. Preoperative anxiety has adverse effects on patients, recovery and outcomes of operation. It can cause delay in recovery, post-operative pain and nausea, also it may cause increasing in anesthesia dose given to patients. There are many factors increase anxiety before surgery; one is the gender, where females experience more anxiety than males. Preoperative anxiety can be decreased by increasing awareness of patients about surgery nature, anesthesia and the development in surgery techniques. Aim: The objective of this study is to measure preoperative anxiety and identifies certain patient characteristics that predispose to high anxiety, and describes the quantity and quality of anxiety that patients experience preoperatively. Methods: This study was conducted on 190 patients post operatively. A visual analogue scale questionnaire containing 10 questions was used to record patients, answers. Results: Patients experienced preoperative anxiety with different degrees and woman was more anxious than man. Conclusion: Preoperative anxiety is very common in candidates of surgery.

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[Abdullah S. Alqefari, Abdullah A. alyami, Abdulmagid G. alenezi, Sultan A. Alsaleh, Tarik M. Almowald, Faisal M. Alturi, Mousa R. Alhokail, Mohammed A.Alqhtani, Jamal A.Alghamdi, Naif S.Alotaibi, Maha A. Alenezi, Mohammed A.Alkahmous, Abdulaziz A. Alkahmous and Omar A.Ahmed. (2017); MEASUREMENT OF PREOPERATIVE ANXIETY AND DETECTION OF PATIENTS? ANESTHETIC CONCERNS USING VAS. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 5 (Feb). 1856-1861] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com

Abdullah Sulaiman Alqefari
MBBS, College of Medicine, JUST, Riyadh, KSA (GP, Ministry of health, KSA)

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Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/3351      
DOI URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/3351

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