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Evidence-Based Practice Guidelines for the Pediatric Autism Spectrum Disorder Population Utilizing the AIDEN Acronym

Sparks, Calvin Tyrone
http://orcid.org/0009-0007-3591-8216
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=otbn1681835015415582

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2024, DNP, Otterbein University, Nursing.
Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), as well as caregivers, experience significant challenges in their interactions with healthcare providers in a clinical setting. This is primarily due to their issues with communication, social interaction, and sensory sensitivities to anesthetic treatment during premedication or preoperative environments. Due to these characteristics, it is important to maintain and update the current standards of care for children with ASD while utilizing evidence-guided strategies to provide a pre-operative assessment effectively. The pre-operative assessment is a critical component that renders impact throughout the surgical experience with the purpose of risk stratification, preparation of altering the normal physiology of the patient, and emergence from anesthesia. Thus, allowing the altered physiology, caused by the delivery of anesthetic medications intra-operatively, to return to normal. A lack of facility guidelines on how to tailor the anesthetic approach to this patient population leaves a potential margin of error that could endanger the expected outcome of the patient undergoing surgery and contribute to a vastly growing healthcare disparity. The purpose of this project is to examine existing contemporary literature on anesthesia preoperative care of the autistic pediatric population, with a focus on evaluating the current standards of care in place, and the utilization of new evidence-based guidelines to improve the quality of care.
Brian Garrett (Committee Chair)
Amy Bishop (Committee Member)
Chai Sribanditmongkol (Committee Member)
60 p.
Health; Health Care
Anesthesia, Preoperative Care, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Preoperative Environments

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  • Sparks, C. T. (2024). Evidence-Based Practice Guidelines for the Pediatric Autism Spectrum Disorder Population Utilizing the AIDEN Acronym [Doctoral dissertation, Otterbein University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=otbn1681835015415582

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Sparks, Calvin. Evidence-Based Practice Guidelines for the Pediatric Autism Spectrum Disorder Population Utilizing the AIDEN Acronym. 2024. Otterbein University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=otbn1681835015415582.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Sparks, Calvin. "Evidence-Based Practice Guidelines for the Pediatric Autism Spectrum Disorder Population Utilizing the AIDEN Acronym." Doctoral dissertation, Otterbein University, 2024. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=otbn1681835015415582

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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