Key result
Virtual reality treatment decreased pain perception in both male and female patients undergoing cardiac surgery, with Likert scale scores dropping by 4.80 in men and 3.43 in women.
Why the study?
Does Virtual Reality treatment reduce pain and physiological stress markers in patients undergoing cardiac surgery?
Cohort (n=22)
Does Virtual Reality treatment reduce pain and physiological stress markers in patients undergoing cardiac surgery?
Virtual reality therapy before and after cardiac surgery effectively reduces pain perception in both genders, though physiological responses to VR differ between men and women.
Supports adjunctive VR for postoperative pain in cardiac surgery; hypothesis-generating and requires randomized trials before practice change.
Cardiac and other invasive surgical procedures cause significant anxiety and stress to patients and their family members. In this study Virtual Reality (VR) was used as a method to reduce stress, anxiety and pain in patients undergoing surgical procedures. This study compared a cohort of patients in the interval prior to and successive to the surgery, differentiating the responses achieved by males and females and comparing the effectiveness. The results are encouraging: they demonstrate the efficacy of VR treatment and the safety of the method and detection of differences in the responses based on gender.
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Mosso-Vázquez et al. (2017) conducted a cohort in Cardiac surgery (n=22). Virtual Reality (VR) vs. Pre-intervention baseline was evaluated on Pain perception (Likert scale). Virtual reality treatment decreased pain perception in both male and female patients undergoing cardiac surgery, with Likert scale scores dropping by 4.80 in men and 3.43 in women.
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