Anesthesiologists at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford came up with a solution to help ease children’s anxiety before surgery. B.E.R.T stands for Bedside Entertainment Theater. Patients can have various video options to watch. These movies can then be projected on to a surgical light above the patient. The screen that the videos are projected on travels with the patient through pre-op and can feel immersive to the child. When it is time for anesthesia, it transforms into an interactive video game, where kids pretend to be a fire-breathing dragon cooking their favorite food. This gets them to take deep breaths for preparation for inhalation induction of anesthesia; doctors will tell the children they are “going to sleep with a mask.” This procedure can replace anxiety meds, which can lead to dangerous risks in a child’s developing brain.
Easing Children’s Anxiety Before Surgery
Pediatrics
10 May 2020 | 1 | by kjh
That’s a good idea. I wish it were a less hectic environment for both children and adults