| Anaesthesiologists at the IWK noticed that playing video clips for children while they fell asleep for surgery seemed to make them less anxious. They asked the researcher team to help them design a study to see if this was really the case. We asked 89 children to take part in the study. Forty two of the children were asked what their favourite show was to watch at home and then watched this show while they fell asleep for surgery. The other forty seven children didn’t watch a video clip, but instead played the “balloon game” with operating room staff, were told stories, or got another form of distraction from the anaesthesiologists while going to sleep. While children were going to sleep, a researcher was in the room to see and record how anxious they were. After seeing all of the children fall asleep for surgery and recording how anxious they were, it was discovered that the children who watched a video were less anxious than those who did not. Now anaesthesiologists will be able to play video clips for their patients while they fall asleep for surgery and know that their patients will be more relaxed. |
Here you can see a resercher demonstrating how the children were able to watch videos in the operating room while falling asleep.
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