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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — A Cincinnati nurse has ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON – Anesthesia can be harmful to the developing brain, studies on animals suggest, raising concerns about potential risks in putting young children under for surgery. Food and Drug ...

Dear Anesthesia & Pain Management Insider, For many children, seeing a long, silver needle headed for their mouth is one of the most fear-inducing parts of dentistry. But a bee-shaped distraction ...