Operating theatres are frightening places, a foreign environment where highly specialized techniques that involve opening and invading a human body take place. As such, they present unique challenges for both those who use them, and those who work there. For children who require surgery and their families, the surgical environment is potentially one in which consideration must be given to the whole psychosocial aspect of care, even more so than in any other hospital environment. This is the 50th anniversary of publication of the Platt Report, a policy document that saw, around the world, the protection of the psychological state of children during hospital admission. This book about.
