Abstract
As the portion of the United States’ population with limited English proficiency (LEP) continues to expand, physicians are faced with the challenge of communicating and obtaining informed consent in a language they neither speak nor understand. Technological advances make it possible to bridge the language gap, at least partially, with video modality. We studied the effect of an instructional video in Spanish on self-reported anxiety, knowledge about general anesthesia procedures and satisfaction with the preoperative anesthesia process in patients requiring a Spanish interpreter.
