Video game created to ease kids’ anxiety in the operating room lands licensing deal


A video game invented by a nurse practitioner at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital hopes to reduce the level of anxiety kids experience when wearing anesthesia masks, and a newly inked licensing agreement could soon make the product available at hospitals around the world.

Abby Hess, a nurse practitioner and clinical researcher with the medical center’s department of anesthesiology, has spent the last seven years developing EZ Induction, a breathing-controlled video game to help kids relax when…

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