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ReviewCurrent pain and headache reports2024

Virtual Reality for Postoperative Pain Management: A Review of Current Evidence.

Aila Malik, Tarek Elshazly, Krishna Pokuri, Carol Apai, Alex Rothkrug, Jamal Hasoon, Matthew Chung, Zhewei Ye, Sadiq Bhayani, Alan D Kaye and 6 more

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Review in Current pain and headache reports, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

16 authors.

Aila Malik *Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, McGovern Medical School, 1333 Moursund Street, Houston, TX, 77030, USA. aila.malik@uth.tmc.edu.
Tarek Elshazly *Department of Anesthesiology, Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals, Cleveland, OH, USA.
Krishna Pokuri *Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Tufts Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.
Carol Apai *Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Rutgers Health, New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, USA.
Alex RothkrugDepartment of Anesthesiology, Division of Pain Management, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Jamal HasoonDepartment of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, UTHealth McGovern Medical School, Houston, TX, USA.
Matthew ChungDepartment of Pain Medicine, Division of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
Zhewei YeDepartment of Orthopedics, Wuhan Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
Sadiq BhayaniPain Management Department in the Anesthesiology Institute, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Alan D KayeDepartment of Anesthesiology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport, Shreveport, LA, USA.
Henry LiuDepartment of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Min LangDepartment of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
R Jason YongDepartment of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Aleksy R DonjowMassachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Giustino Varrassi *Deaprtment of Research, Paolo Procacci Foundation, Rome, Italy.
Christopher L Robinson *Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purpose of reviewWith the ongoing opioid crisis, there is a continued need to develop multimodal pain management strategies inclusive of non-pharmacological treatments. Virtual reality (VR) offers a non-invasive treatment approach for the management of acute and chronic pain including postoperative pain. The aim of this review is to describe the use of VR and its effect on pain-related outcome measures compared to routine care in various types of surgical procedures. RECENT

findingsSevere postoperative pain is associated with an increased risk of medical complications and may lead to the development of chronic pain. VR-based interventions are a form of distraction therapy that attenuates pain perception and have been shown to reduce activity in central pain-processing regions. In patients undergoing cardiac surgery, VR may reduce postoperative pain and improve physiological parameters such as heart rate and blood pressure. VR technology was found to have a high satisfaction rate in patients undergoing laparoscopic abdominal surgeries. Three-dimensional (3D) VR interventions may be useful for postoperative pain control in patients undergoing head and neck surgery. VR technology has revealed mixed results for postoperative pain control following orthopedic procedures although it has beneficial effects on functional outcomes during postoperative rehabilitation. In the pediatric population, VR is notable for its applicability in postoperative pain control and anxiety. VR technology is a novel, non-pharmacologic adjunct in the management of postoperative pain. Current studies are limited regarding therapy adaptations for the elderly population. High-quality randomized controlled trials are needed to establish the clinical effectiveness of VR-based therapies in the postoperative setting.

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Pain ManagementPostoperative PainVirtual Reality Exposure TherapyHumansAcute painChronic painDistractionPain therapyTechnologyVirtual reality

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