Nurse Anesthesist Assessment of Patient Preoperative Anxiety

Assessment of Patient Preoperative Anxiety by Nurse Anesthetist

Preoperative anxiety is a major concern for patients who undergo surgery. To accurately identify anxious patient is therefore crucial to improve perioperative patient care. Preoperative anxiety remain highly difficult to quantify in current practice. Many patient fail to express their anxiety and the assessment of the level of anxiety is mainly based on heteroevaluation by caregivers. Nurse anesthetists provide closed support to patient prior to the induction of anesthesia. The aim of the study is to assess whether nurse anesthetist accurately assess patient preoperative anxiety from arrival to the operating room to the induction of anesthesia.

EVALANXI is a single-center prospective observational study. The main objective of the study is to assess whether the assessment of preoperative anxiety by nurse anesthetist (hetero-assessment) accurately estimate the level of anxiety reported by the patient from arrival to the operating room to the induction of anesthesia (self-assessment).

Patient Inclusion Criteria:

• Age > 18 years old
• Patients with ASA 1, ASA 2 ou ASA 3
• Patients undergoing planned surgery with general anesthesia

Patient Exclusion Criteria:

• Age <18
• Refusal, inability to oral consent
• Cardio-thoracic surgery or emergency surgery
• Patient with dementia, medically diagnosed psychiatric disorder, inability to answer questions

Nurse anesthetist Inclusion Criteria:

• Nurse anesthesis in charge of the corresponding patient

Nurse anesthetist Exclusion Criteria:

• Assessment of the preoperative anxiety of a previously included patient