A Study of Methods to Reduce Anxiety in Preoperative Elective Surgical Patients

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2009-05-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Patients are often anxious immediately before surgery. The investigators hypothesis is that a warming blanket is as effective as the sedative midazolam in allaying anxiety before surgery.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Melbourne Health
• Treatments: Midazolam

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients aged between 18 and 70 years

• male and female

• presenting for elective surgery

• requiring general anaesthesia

• ASA 1-3

Exclusion Criteria:

• Cardiothoracic and intracranial surgery

• Day case surgery

• Pre-existing anxiety disorder

• Patients on psychotropic drugs preoperatively Febrile patients T > 37.5 degrees Celsius Allergy to midazolam Obstructive Sleep Apnoea diagnosed on sleep study