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Therapeutic benefit of the anesthesiologist-patient relationship.
Anesthesiology
December 2013
* Visiting Assistant Professor of Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland. †Past Chairman, Department of Anesthesiology, Good Samaritan Hospital of San Jose, San Jose, California.
The psychologic effect of the preoperative visit by an anesthetist has been compared with the effect of pentobarbital for preanesthetic medication. Patients receiving pentobarbital 1 hour before an operation became drowsy but it could not be shown that they became calm. Patients who had received a visit by an anesthetist before operation (informing them about the events which were to occur on the day of operation and about the anesthetic to be administered) were not drowsy but were more likely to be calm on the day of operation.
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