Virtual Reality in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit: Patient Emotional and Physiologic Responses.

ABSTRACT:

Context

Patients in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) are limited in their ability to engage in developmentally typical activity. Long-term hospitalization, especially with minimal interpersonal engagement, is associated with risk for delirium and delayed recovery. Virtual reality (VR) has growing evidence as a safe, efficacious, and acceptable intervention for pain and distress management in the context of uncomfortable healthcare procedures, and for enhancing engagement in, and improving outcomes of rehabilitation therapy.

Hypothesis

Critically ill children may experience high levels of engagement and physiologic effects while engaging with VR.

Methods and models

This cross-sectional study of 3-17-year-old children admitted to a PICU used a VR headset to deli

SUBMITTER: Badke CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8995472 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature