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Describing And Predicting Preprocedural Anxiety In Patients Scheduled For Advanced Gastrointestinal Endoscopy During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Dawn Profit
Theses and Dissertations--Nursing
Advanced gastrointestinal endoscopy includes a group of specialized procedures and interventions that are being performed more frequently with little attention given to a patient’s preprocedural anxiety issues. Preprocedural anxiety is an anticipated problem with any surgery or invasive procedure and if sustained or experienced excessively, is associated with negative clinical factors and complications.
In the beginning of 2020, the United States was met with a global pandemic caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, termed COVID-19. There were recommendations to decrease medical procedural case volume in order to slow the spread of the virus, protect staff and patients from getting the virus, …