ReviewDer Anaesthesist2010
[Negative and positive suggestions in anaesthesia : Improved communication with anxious surgical patients].
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26 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- [Treatment and Support for Adults at the End of Life in Intensive Care : A Recommendation by the Ethics Section of DIVI and the German Society for Palliative Medicine. Part 1: Key Aspects of End-of-Life Care and Dying in Intensive Care. Part 2: Therapeutic Measures and Support at the End of Life in Intensive Care].Medizinische Klinik, Intensivmedizin und Notfallmedizin · 2025Guideline
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- The Efficacy, Safety and Applications of Medical Hypnosis.Deutsches Arzteblatt international · 2016Pooled it
- [Words like medicine-Therapeutic communication in anesthesia].Die Anaesthesiologie · 2025Review
- Practical guidance for monitored anesthesia care during awake craniotomy.Anesthesia and pain medicine · 2025Review
- [Dealing with children and parents in anesthesia-Tips and tricks].Die Anaesthesiologie · 2024Review
- Hypnosis-Assisted Awake Craniotomy for Eloquent Brain Tumors: Advantages and Pitfalls.Cancers · 2024Article
- "We hear and we fear" - Insights of 1203 Women on Personnel Conversations During Cesarean Delivery.Maternal and child health journal · 2024Article
- Hypnosis in psychotherapy, psychosomatics and medicine. A brief overview.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Review
- [Nocebo, informed consent and doctor-patient communication].Der Nervenarzt · 2020Review
- Nocebo Effects and Negative Suggestions in Daily Clinical Practice - Forms, Impact and Approaches to Avoid Them.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2019Review
- Nocebo Effects on Muscular Performance - An Experimental Study About Clinical Situations.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2019Article
- [Self-hypnosis training for in-hospital chronic pain patients : A retrolective observational study].Schmerz (Berlin, Germany) · 2018Observational
- [Placebo and nocebo : How can they be used or avoided?]Der Internist · 2017Review
- [Anesthesia for medical students : A brief guide to practical anesthesia in adults with a web-based video illustration].Der Anaesthesist · 2016Review
- [Relatives in intensive care units: (Un)Satisfied needs].Der Nervenarzt · 2016Review
- Hypnosis-induced mental training improves performance on the Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery (FLS) simulator.Surgical endoscopy · 2015Article
- [Communication with children: practical hints and tools for the anesthesiology routine].Der Anaesthesist · 2015Review
- [Anesthesiological management of awake craniotomy : Asleep-awake-asleep technique or without sedation].Der Anaesthesist · 2015Review
- [Nocebo effects and negative suggestion in anesthesia].Der Anaesthesist · 2014Review
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Abstract
In extreme situations, for example during emergencies or when facing surgery, patients exhibit heightened and focused attention and increased susceptibility to suggestion. In this trance-like state negative suggestion, usually spoken unintentionally can aggravate anxiety, stress and pain. On the other hand words can offer an opportunity to benefit the patient via positive suggestion. In order to improve communication with anxious patients during stressful and painful medical procedures, certain hypnotherapeutic insights and methods can be employed, such as utilization, reframing, indirect suggestion, safe place, dissociation, metaphors, posthypnotic instructions and non-verbal communication and this without requiring formal hypnotic induction and without need for additional time, premises or personnel. Indications for such approaches are the preoperative visit, induction of anaesthesia, as well as operations under local or regional anaesthesia. An extreme example of the latter is awake craniotomy employing cranial nerve blocks and an awake-awake technique avoiding centrally acting drugs. Such hypnotic communication can help the patient to regain self-control and access to inner resources.
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