Effects of Virtual Reality on Pre-Operative Anxiety and Induction of Anesthesia in Children and Adolescents
Status:
Unknown status
Trial end date:
2019-05-01
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Summary
Pain and anxiety have a direct correlation. Patients who experience anxiety are more
susceptible to feeling pain, and patients who experience pain are more likely to have a
component of anxiety associated with their pain. A common technique used by pain
psychologists to help minimize pain is distraction. Different forms of distraction include
video games, movies, music, etc. Recently, doctors and researchers around the world have
begun experimenting with Virtual Reality as a distraction technique.
A review of the use of virtual reality compared to the current standard of care may help
uncover important trends regarding anxiety, postoperative pain and analgesic use in patients
who undergo a tonsillectomy or a tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy.