How would patients prefer to spend the waiting time before their operations?

Anaesthesia
R HydeA J Asbury

Abstract

Many surgical patients are anxious while waiting to go to the operating theatre in spite of the best preparation with drugs, information and reassurance. It is possible that patients could be more comfortable if allowed a choice of activities before operations. The objective of this study was to find out how pre-operative patients might prefer to occupy their time. We distributed 200 questionnaires to elective surgery patients and 184 (92%) were available for analysis. Of the respondents, 54.1% wanted to be slightly sleepy, 72.0% preferred not to be fast asleep and 57.2% preferred not to be wide awake. Reading (56.8%), listening to music (57.1%) and chatting with other patients (39.9%) were preferred activities. It might be appropriate to ask patients how sedated they would wish to be before their surgery and perhaps have alternatives to sedation available.

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