Effects of Virtual Reality on Pre-Operative Anxiety and Induction of Anesthesia in Children and Adolescents

• Status: Unknown status
• Trial end date: 2019-05-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Pain and anxiety have a direct correlation. Patients who experience anxiety are more susceptible to feeling pain, and patients who experience pain are more likely to have a component of anxiety associated with their pain. A common technique used by pain psychologists to help minimize pain is distraction. Different forms of distraction include video games, movies, music, etc. Recently, doctors and researchers around the world have begun experimenting with Virtual Reality as a distraction technique.

A review of the use of virtual reality compared to the current standard of care may help uncover important trends regarding anxiety, postoperative pain and analgesic use in patients who undergo a tonsillectomy or a tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Valley Anesthesiology Consultants
• Collaborators: KindVR; Phoenix Children's Hospital
• Treatments: Anesthetics; Midazolam

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Any patient undergoing tonsillectomy or tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy procedure

• Must be between the ages of 5 and 11 years

• Anxious/moderate anxiety patients (mYPAS greater than or equal to 30)

Exclusion Criteria:

• Any patient with preoperative peripherally placed IV

• Any patient who is cognitively impaired

• Any patient with a previous surgery

• ASA Physical Status higher than II

• Body Mass Index >30

• A history of affective disorder, attention disorder, or psychotropic medication use

• Calm/low anxiety patients (mYPAS less than 30)

• Deaf or blind