ArticleJournal of intensive care2021
What place for virtual reality in the intensive care unit during medical procedures?
Article in Journal of intensive care, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- OncoVR - Virtual Reality in Oncology for Patient-centered Care: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Current oncology reports · 2026Pooled it
- Experience of heart failure patients in mobilization with virtual reality: mixed methods study.Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da U S P · 2025Trial
- Low-Intensity Virtual Reality Exercise for Caregivers of People with Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Pilot Study.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2025Article
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- Smart Healthcare: The Role of Digital Health in Modern Medicine.Health care science · 2025Article
- Virtual and augmented reality in intensive care medicine: a systematic review.Annals of intensive care · 2023Review
- Virtual and augmented reality in critical care medicine: the patient's, clinician's, and researcher's perspective.Critical care (London, England) · 2022Review
- Immersive Technologies in Healthcare: An In-Depth Exploration of Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality in Enhancing Patient Care, Medical Education, and Training Paradigms.Journal of primary care & community healthReview
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Abstract
In the intensive care unit, patients are subject to discomforts and pain. Their management is essentially based on pharmacologic approaches. Immersive virtual reality could represent an adjunctive non-invasive and non-pharmacological pain control technique. It is based on real-time interaction with an artificial 360° immersive world using interfaces that enable physical and emotional perceptions to make the user feel better trying to reduce pain perception and to limit anxiety. Evaluation of virtual reality in intensive care unit is lacking and further studies are necessary before to introduce this alternative method for critical patients.
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