Improving the Intensive Care Patient Experience With Virtual Reality-A Feasibility Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Patients' stays in the ICU are often characterized by prolonged immobility, sedation, disrupted sleep, and extended periods of pain, which put ICU patients at greater risk for ICU-acquired weakness and delirium-related mortality. The aim of this study was to evaluate the feasibility and efficacy of using meditative virtual reality to improve the hospital experience of ICU patients.

Design

Final report of prospective observational trial.

Setting

Surgical and trauma ICUs of the University of Florida Health, an academic hospital.

Patients

Fifty-nine nonintubated adult ICU patients without delirium at recruitment.

Interventions

Patients were exposed to sessions of commercially available meditative virtual reality applications focused on calmness a

SUBMITTER: Ong TL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7314318 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature