A Study to Evaluate Virtual Reality As Adjunct to Anesthesia During Orthopedic Surgery

Mayo Clinic

Status: Invitation-only

Conditions: Hip Injuries; Knee Arthropathy

Treatments: Other: Virtual reality

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05112302

21-005305

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to obtain feedback from patients and orthopedic surgeons who agree to use virtual reality (VR ) as an adjunct to standard of care in orthopedic cases under regional or central neuraxial nerve block. This will serve as a preliminary study for future trials to compare outcomes between VR and standard of care vs standard of care only.

Enrollment: 50 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age ≥ 18 years old.
• Patients scheduled for orthopedic procedure under regional or central neuraxial nerve block (anterior primary hip arthroplasty or primary knee arthroplasty).
• Subject willing to participate and able to provide informed consent.

Exclusion criteria

• Age < 18 years old.
• History of motion sickness or blindness.
• Unable to consent due to cognitive difficulty.
• Current diagnosis of epilepsy, dementia, or other neurological disease that may prevent use of VR hardware and software.

Sensitivity to flashing light or motion.

• Recent stroke.
• Injury to the eyes, face, neck, or arms that prevents comfortable use of VR hardware or software, or safe use of the hardware (e.g., open wound, sores, or skin rash on face).

Trial design

50 participants in 1 patient group

Virtual reality

Treatment:

Other: Virtual reality