151. Preoperative anxiety about spinal surgery under general anesthesia
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Jun-Seok Lee, Yong-Moon Park, Kee-Yong Ha, Geun-Hyeong Bak, Ki-Won Kim, and S.H. Cho
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Adult ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Patient anxiety ,Visual analogue scale ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Anesthesia, General ,Anxiety ,Severity of Illness Index ,03 medical and health sciences ,Young Adult ,0302 clinical medicine ,Sex Factors ,Spinal Stenosis ,Discectomy ,Surveys and Questionnaires ,medicine ,Humans ,Orthopedics and Sports Medicine ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Aged ,Aged, 80 and over ,Lumbar Vertebrae ,business.industry ,Age Factors ,Laminectomy ,Perioperative ,Middle Aged ,Spinal surgery ,Surgery ,Anesthesia ,Preoperative Period ,Female ,Neurosurgery ,medicine.symptom ,business ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,Intervertebral Disc Displacement ,Diskectomy - Abstract
No study has investigated preoperative anxiety about spinal surgery under general anesthesia. The purposes of this study were (1) to determine how many patients have preoperative anxiety about spinal surgery and general anesthesia, (2) to evaluate the level of anxiety, (3) to identify patient factors potentially associated with the level of anxiety, and (4) to describe the characteristics of the anxiety that patients experience during the perioperative period. This study was performed in 175 consecutive patients undergoing laminectomy for lumbar stenosis or discectomy for herniated nucleus pulposus under general anesthesia. Demographic data, information related to surgery, and characteristics of anxiety were obtained using a questionnaire. The level of anxiety was assessed using a visual analog scale of anxiety (VAS-anxiety). Patient factors potentially associated with the level of anxiety were investigated using multiple stepwise regression analysis. Of 157 patients finally included in this study, 137 (87 %) had preoperative anxiety (VAS-anxiety > 0). The mean VAS-anxiety score for spinal surgery was significantly higher than that for general anesthesia (4.6 ± 3.0 vs. 3.2 ± 2.7; P
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- 2013