title: Procedure room for kids improves provider productivity, frees operating rooms.
abstract: Screaming, kicking children can turn what should be a five-minute outpatient procedure into a long ordeal for both the physician and the child's parents. The staff at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center has come up with a solution that has calmed the nerves of young patients and the doctors who treat them.
mesh_terms: D000761:Anesthesia Department, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D000777:Anesthetics / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D002673:Child, Hospitalized / Q000523:psychology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D006801:Humans; D006993:Hypnotics and Sedatives / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D009513:New Hampshire; D009873:Operating Rooms / Q000458:organization & administration*; D019982:Organizational Case Studies
chemical_list: D000777:Anesthetics; D006993:Hypnotics and Sedatives