McCormick A S, Spargo P M
Shackleton Department of Anaesthetics, Southampton General Hospital, UK.
Paediatr Anaesth. 1996;6(3):183-6. doi: 10.1111/j.1460-9592.1996.tb00425.x.
Thirty departments of paediatric anaesthesia in the United Kingdom were sent a questionnaire about their policies and practices regarding parental presence in the anaesthetic room. Of 22 respondents, 100% left the decision about whether a parent should be present for induction of anaesthesia to the individual anaesthetist and only 14% had written policy guidelines. All departments permitted parental presence at induction for elective surgery, compared with 77% for emergency surgery and 55% for a rapid sequence induction. The minimum age of child below which parents were not allowed at induction varied between no age limit and one year.
