A comparison of interactive immersive virtual reality and still nature pictures as distraction-based analgesia in burn wound care.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Non-pharmacologic adjuncts to opioid analgesics for burn wound debridement enhance safety and cost effectiveness in care. The current study explored the feasibility of using a custom portable water-friendly immersive VR hardware during burn debridement in adults, and tested whether interactive VR would reduce pain more effectively than nature stimuli viewed in the same VR goggles.

Methods

Forty-eight patients with severe burn injuries (44 adults and 4 children) had their burn injuries debrided and dressed in a wet wound care environment on Study Day 1, and 13 also participated in Study Day 2.

Intervention

The study used a within-subject design to test two hypotheses (one hypothesis per study day) with the condition order randomized. On Study Day 1, each indivi

SUBMITTER: Patterson DR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9363532 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature