ArticleFrontiers in medicine2020
Intensive Care Unit-Specific Virtual Reality for Psychological Recovery After ICU Treatment for COVID-19; A Brief Case Report.
Article in Frontiers in medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07585500 (Virtual Reality Intervention for Post-Intensive Care Syndrome), which is not on this map. Cited by 15 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Virtual Reality Intervention for Post-Intensive Care Syndrome (PICS): A Protocol for a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial for Cognitive, Physical and Psychological Outcomes
Who cites it
15 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The effect of virtual reality stimulation on reducing the incidence of delirium among patients admitted to intensive care units: a systematic review study.BMC anesthesiology · 2025Pooled it
- Efficacy of virtual reality for pain relief in medical procedures: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC medicine · 2024Pooled it
- Intensive Care Unit-Specific Virtual Reality for Critically Ill Patients With COVID-19: Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2022Trial
- Mapping the Evidence on Virtual Reality for Post-Intensive Care Syndrome: A Systematic Review and a Five-Axis VR-PICS Taxonomy.Biomedicines · 2026Review
- Digital Health Interventions Supporting Recovery for Intensive Care Patients and Their Family Members: A Scoping Review.Mayo Clinic proceedings. Digital health · 2025Review
- Virtual and augmented reality in intensive care medicine: a systematic review.Annals of intensive care · 2023Review
- Effects of virtual reality for psychological health of ICU patients: a study protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis.BMJ open · 2023Article
- COVID-19 pandemic in the intensive care unit: Psychological implications and interventions, a systematic review.World journal of psychiatry · 2023Article
- Virtual reality applications for rehabilitation of COVID-19 patients: A systematic review.Health science reports · 2022Article
- Virtual Reality Applications in Medicine During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Systematic Review.JMIR serious games · 2022Review
- Acute Neurologic Complications of COVID-19 and Postacute Sequelae of COVID-19.Critical care clinics · 2022Review
- Virtual Reality to Improve Sequelae of the Postintensive Care Syndrome: A Multicenter, Randomized Controlled Feasibility Study.Critical care explorations · 2021Article
- Psychologic Distress and Quality of Life After ICU Treatment for Coronavirus Disease 2019: A Multicenter, Observational Cohort Study.Critical care explorations · 2021Article
- Extended Reality for Enhanced Telehealth During and Beyond COVID-19: Viewpoint.JMIR serious games · 2021Article
- Case Report: A Rehabilitation Practice Report During ICU Management for a Patient With Multiple Disabilities Due to COVID-19 Pneumonia and COPD.Frontiers in medicine · 2021Article
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Abstract
A substantial number of ICU survivors are expected due to the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak, who are at risk for psychological impairments, such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety, and depression. We designed a COVID-19 intensive care unit-specific virtual reality (ICU-VR) intervention and tested it on one of our COVID-19 patients. The impact of event scale-revised and the hospital anxiety and depression scale showed that this patient suffered from PTSD, anxiety, and depression on the day of the intervention. One week after receiving ICU-VR, levels of PTSD, anxiety and depression had normalized, and stayed normalized until 6 months after discharge. In conclusion, innovative technologies, such as VR, have the potential to improve psychological rehabilitation, and should therefore be considered by clinicians for the treatment of ICU-related psychological sequelae after COVID-19.
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