 Many other interventions have been tried to decrease anxiety with varying success. Most are aimed at distraction. Music therapy appears to be therapist-dependent 12. Hand held video games appear to help decrease anxiety, even during induction 13. Even having clowns in the operating room at induction of anesthesia seems to help -- the study concluded that staff were quite resistant to maintaining the clown program 14. Interestingly, a small randomized controlled trial showed that parents distracting their children during induction with novel toys and books or blowing bubbles did not decrease anxiety 15. 