For kids, an iPad before surgery may be as effective as a sedative

The use of mobile devices by parents to keep their kids occupied is fairly well established, but a new study indicates that those devices' calming effect may even be useful for surgeries. A new study being published by the World Federation Of Societies of Anaesthesiologists (WFSA) claims that giving a child an iPad to use before surgery can be as relaxing as a sedative.  SEE ALSO: McDonald's recalls Happy Meal fitness tracker "Our study showed that child and parental anxiety before anaesthe