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Premedication--Allay Anxiety

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A reassuring visit with an Anesthesiologist regarding expectations and fears about surgery will be equally or more effective than a pharmacologic premedication without any side effects.
Therefore, routine premedication should not be offered. Certainly, premedication should only be offered by (or at the direction of) the anesthesiologist.



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