• Yumi Sugimoto, Miwa Baba, Keikou Aishin, Mitsuo Nishimura, Shunsuke Makii, Shunichi Mizukawa, and Yoji Kobayashi.
• Department of Anesthesiology, Okayama Saiseikai General Hospital, Okayama 700-8511.
• Masui. 2005 Jan 1;54(1):73-6.

BackgroundThe anesthesia information sheet used in our hospital describes the anesthetic management and complications in a simple style. Patients scheduled for operations receive it from their doctor with some explanation about anesthesia. The written informed consent on the sheet is obtained from the patients.MethodsOne hundred and one patients undergoing elective operations were interviewed after receiving explanations during the anesthesiologist's preoperative rounds.ResultsFrom this survey, 85% of the patients read it before the anesthesiologist's preoperative rounds and 75% of them understood the contents. After the anesthesiologist's explanation, 94% of the patients who had read it understood enough. About a third of the patients who had read the information sheet had anxiety about anesthesia. After the anesthesiologist's explanation, the percentage of patients who had anxiety decreased to 8%. 98% of the patients who read the information sheet answered that it should be read before the anesthesiologist's preoperative rounds.ConclusionsIn view of this survey we concluded that reading the information sheet before the anesthesiologist's preoperative rounds is useful to increase the patients understanding of anesthesia.

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