Calm crazy aliens in the metaverse or fight enemy cells that roam the human body by looking at them through a virtual reality viewer and thus forgetting that you are in an operating room for the positioning of a venous access. The trial is underway at the Giovanni XXIII pediatric hospital in Bari and the first “results are encouraging”, say the hospital.
“We have verified that this method helps children overcome their fear of needles, better manage the anxiety of an operation and also allows us to avoid or reduce the use of drugs to sedate or put little patients to sleep”, explains the doctor. Maria Luigia Lasorella, medical director in anesthesia and resuscitation at Giovanni XXIII. In the system being tested in Bari there are two methods available to avoid deep sedation, necessary during vascular access operations, which can be long and painful for children. A program that through guided breathing exercises produces a sort of clinical hypnosis and a game mode that distracts the child allowing the anesthetists to operate. “We put an autistic child to sleep who, when he woke up in his room, wanted to finish the game – says Dr. Lasorella – in another case we managed to reduce the use of sedative drugs by a third to conduct a small operation, avoiding deep sedation “.
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