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A
trial project by the Montreal Children's Hospital suggested that the use of
medical hypnosis(催眠)can
reduce pain and anxiety in patients. The project also resulted in a reduction
in the amount of medicines used to perform medical-imaging imaging(医学影像) procedures.
"During
the examination children don't move. It works perfectly. It's amazing,"
said Johanne L'Ecuyer, a medical-imaging technologist at the hospital.
The
project was inspired by a French team from Rouen University Hospital Centre
where examinations are done under hypnosis instead of general anesthesia(麻醉).
A
French medical-imaging technologist-also a hypnotist — was invited to train a
few members in the medical-imaging department of the children's hospital. In
all, 80 examinations were conducted for the project between January and
September, 2019, focusing on the imaging procedures that would cause anxiety.
Hypnosis
is not a state of sleep: It is rather
a modified(改变的)state
of consciousness. The technologist will guide the patient to this modified
state—an imaginary world that will disassociate itself more and more from the
procedure that follows.
"The
technologist must build up a story with the patient," Ms. L'Ecuyer said.
"The patient is left with the power to choose what he wants to talk about.
Do you play sports? Do you like going to the beach? We establish a subject that
we will discuss throughout the procedure. "
Everything
that happens next during the procedure must be related to this story — an
injection (注射) becomes
the bite of an insect; the heat on the skin becomes the sensation of the sun
and a machine that rings becomes a police car passing nearby.
"The
important thing is that the technologist associates what is happening outside
the patient's body with what the patient sees in his head," Ms. L'Ecuyer
said. "It requires creativity on the part of the technologist,
imagination, a lot of patience and kindness."
The
procedure appealed to the staff a lot when it was introduced in January. It
spread like wildfire that someone from France was here to train the technologists,"
Ms. L'Ecuyer said. She added that she had a line of staff at her door wanting
to take the training.