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 game helps kids relax when it’s time to put on an anesthesia mask and fall asleep for surgery. A video game invented by a nurse practitioner at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital hopes to reduce the ...

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 ...

Game uses the child’s controlled breathing to move cartoon animals on their tablet Hospitals can be scary places for children, especially if they need surgery. Even if they’re used to the beeping ...

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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 ...

Anesthesiology saw a year of significant innovation in 2025 as new technologies, techniques and care models redefined what is possible in the perioperative environment. From AI-driven automation to ...

Older patients who received anesthesia with etomidate had no higher risk of major complications after elective abdominal surgery compared to propofol, a randomized trial found. Among 1,917 such ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...