PERIOPERATIVE ANXIETY AND POSTOPERATIVE PAIN IN GERIATRIC-PATIENTS UNDERGOING OPHTHALMIC SURGERY IN LOCAL AND GENERAL-ANESTHESIA
- 1 January 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Vol. 37 (1) , 19-23
Abstract
Intraocular surgery is performed under local or general anesthesia. The indications for these procedures are often dependent on local circumstances. On the one hand, the optimal conditions for operations under general anesthesia, on the other. The negligible stress of local anesthesia, especially for the elderly, are emphasized. To clarify this question, perioperative anxiety behavior and postoperative pain were investigated in geriatric patients undergoing ophthalmic surgery.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
- Note on the Validity of the Dutch State-Trait Anxiety Inventory with Surgical PatientsPsychological Reports, 1986
- Generalized Anxiety or Depression Measured by the Hamilton Anxiety Scale and the Melancholia Scale in Patients before and after Cardiac SurgeryPsychopathology, 1984
- Surgical Stress in the Healthy ElderlyJournal of the American Geriatrics Society, 1983