Anxiety before Surgery Complicates Recovery in Children.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-24 August 2006-YALE UNIVERSITY: Anxiety before Surgery Complicates Recovery in Children(C)1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:24082006 New Haven, Conn. -- Children who are anxious before surgery experience a more painful, slow, and complicated postoperative recovery, according to a Yale School of Medicine study published this month in Pediatrics.

The study is important, said lead author, Zeev Kain, M.D., professor in the Departments of Anesthesiology, Pediatrics, and the Yale Child Study Center, because more than five million children in the United States undergo surgery every year and up to 45 percent experience significant stress and anxiety prior to surgery. In his five-year study supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH),...