- (1) Inability to understand or speak Spanish (2) Developmental delay (3) Blindness (4) Impaired cognitive or communicative abilities including inability to rate the intensity of symptoms (5) Surgical procedure where vision or hearing is anticipated to be impaired in the immediate postoperative period (6) Nausea and /or vomiting within 24 hours of procedure, (7) Patient or parental refusal to participate (8) Pregnant females