The use of Virtual Reality for Bedside Procedures

Abstract

Pain is a routine part of medical care. Daily, clinicians worldwide perform millions of minor, bedside procedures that result in pain and discomfort. Procedures such as suturing lacerations, injecting inflamed joints, performing mammograms, bone marrow aspirations, and wart destruction among other, are painful, touch every specialty and affect every age group. Medical care is branded as painful, and pain and discomfort may affect patients willingness to consent to such procedures, with significant implications for care and outcomes if procedures are averted, some with direct effect on mortality .

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