Status:
COMPLETED
Virtual Reality During Invasive Medical Procedures in an Emergency Department
Lead Sponsor:
Olivier Hugli
Collaborating Sponsors:
University of Lausanne
Conditions:
Pain
Anxiety
Eligibility:
All Genders
18+ years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
This randomized controlled study aims to investigate whether, during a painful medical procedure in an emergency department (ED), the diffusion of a virtual environment through a virtual reality (VR) ...
Detailed Description
Consultation in a hospital ED and the provided treatments are stressful, as it usually results from an unexpected event that has a negative impact on health. Also, an ED is a noisy and chaotic environ...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Patient whose care requires a medical procedure (suture, cast placement and repositioning, fracture reduction, paracentesis, thoracocentesis and lumbar puncture).
Exclusion
- Unstable patient (e.g., admitted to the intensive care unit or deemed unstable by the physician in charge);
- Patients without decision-making capacity or with whom it is difficult to communicate:
- Altered mental status (e.g., cognitive impairment, mental retardation, acute confusional state, acute psychosis).
- Intoxication,
- Drug abuse
- Patient unable to communicate in French at a level sufficient to give informed consent and answer questions about pain and anxiety;
- Patient who is hard of hearing;
- Patient unable to see films on screen or in VR due to vision problems (e.g., blindness or without his/her glasses).
- Patients unable to understand the use of the EVA strips;
- Part of the body where the altered procedure is to be performed (e.g. sensitivity disorder, lymphedema...)
- Patient with a head injury that prevents the use of RV helmet;
- Intended use of sedation analgesia with a dissociative agent (midazolam, ketamine, propofol).
- Incarcerated patient;
- Patient transferred from another hospital;
- Patient who participated in this study at a previous consultation.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
February 12 2020
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
September 30 2020
Estimated Enrollment :
117 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT04273958
Start Date
February 12 2020
End Date
September 30 2020
Last Update
July 19 2021
Active Locations (1)
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Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV)
Lausanne, Canton of Vaud, Switzerland, 1011