This study evaluate the change in preoperative anxiety, baseline (M1) and pre-induction anxiety levels (M3), as shown by children undergoing MAS determined by the m-YPAS scale in the different APO management groups.Patients will be allocated in one of this four groups: hydroxyzine+clown; hydroxyzine alone, clowns alone or nothing
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
QUADRUPLE
Enrollment
170
Hydroxyzine solution
Clowns intervention
Hospital Clinico San Carlos
Madrid, Spain
m-YPAS
Yale Preoperative Anxiety Scale (mYPAS)
Time frame: Anxiety in the operation room (average 60 minutes from the begining of the study)
m-YPAS
Yale Preoperative Anxiety Scale (mYPAS)
Time frame: Anxiety when the patient arrives at operation room (average 45 minutes from the begining of the study)
Cortisol level (blood)
cortisol blood test
Time frame: Just before starting surgery (average 75 minutes from the begining of the study)
Cortisol level (salive)
cortisol blood test
Time frame: when the patient arrives at operation room(average 45 minutes from the begining of the study)
Anesthesia induction
Anesthesia induction according to the checklist
Time frame: Just before starting surgery (average 75 minutes from the begining of the study)
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