For
kids, an
iPad before surgery may be as
effective as a sedative
The use of mobile devices by parents to keep their kids occupied is
fairly well established, but a new study indicates that those devices' calming effect may even be useful for surgeries.
A new study being published by the World Federation Of Societies of Anaesthesiologists (
WFSA) claims that giving a child an
iPad to use
before surgery can be as relaxing as a sedative.*
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"Our study showed that child and parental anxiety
before anaesthesia are equally blunted by midazolam or use of the iPad," Dr. Dominique Chassard said in
a statement released in the run-up to the release of the group's research findings.*
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