Imagine being a child being prepped for surgery, surrounded by scalpels and strangers wearing masks, hats and gloves. An anesthesia mask hovers over your face in a brightly lit operating room. Sounds ...
Abby Hess, DNP, who works in the Cincinnati Children’s pre-anesthesia consultation clinic, developed the anxiety-allaying game with the support of the Ohio Third Frontier Technology Validation and ...
CINCINNATI (WKRC) - A nurse practitioner at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital has come up with a new way to help comfort kids heading into surgery. For thousands of young children every year, heading ...
The gaming app is called EZ Induction and transforms a scary anesthesia mask into a fun game controller. The last thing a child might see before surgery is a scary anesthesia mask. To help calm that ...
DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — A Cincinnati nurse has invented a first-of-its-kind video game to help ease kids’ anxiety before surgery. Abby Hess is a nurse practitioner at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital who ...
Cincinnati Children's is the first medical center in the United States to pilot a video game to help children relax when they need to receive anesthesia before falling asleep for surgery.Children's ...