Touchscreen tablets: as effective as sedatives?
For children aged four to 10, playing with a touchscreen tablet before surgery could be as effective as sedatives when it comes to reducing anxiety. It could even make anesthesia more effective.
(AFP) For children aged four to 10, playing with a touchscreen tablet—such as Apple's iPad—before surgery could be as effective as sedatives when it comes to reducing anxiety. It could even make anesthesia more effective, a French study has found.
The research, led by Dr Dominique Chassard at the Hospices Civils de Lyon, was presented at the World Congress of Anesthesiologists annual conference in Hong Kong, which runs August 28 to September 2 this year.
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