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Perioperative Effects of Operating Room Virtual Tour

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Seoul National University

Status

Completed

Conditions

Postoperative Complications
Preoperative Care
Emergence Delirium
Anxiety

Treatments

Behavioral: a 360-degree VR video tour

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT03172182
B-1705-396-302

Details and patient eligibility

About

Preoperative anxiety is associated with adverse consequences such as emergence delirium, and postoperative behavioral changes. According to previous studies, providing information of anesthetic procedures helps to lessen preoperative anxiety. However, verbal explanation alone provides the limited effect, and the tour program of the operating room prior to surgery may not be possible for a number of hospitals due to organizational and financial reasons. Therefore, the virtual reality (VR) tour of the operating room may be an innovative and novel method to give children information about the preoperative process and to alleviate the preoperative anxiety. In this study, we intend to evaluate the effects of the operating room virtual tour on preoperative anxiety as well as emergence delirium and postoperative behavioral changes, in pediatric patients.

Enrollment

86 patients

Sex

All

Ages

4 to 10 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Elective surgery
  • American Society of Anesthesiologist (ASA) physical class I, II
  • Informed consent; Children aged between 4 and 6 years old are allowed to have verbal consent and their parents provide informed written consent. Children over the age of 7 are required to obtain a written consent with parental permission.

Exclusion criteria

  • ASA class ≥ III
  • Major surgery needing postoperative intensive care unit (ICU) admission.
  • Chronic disease or history of preterm birth
  • Developmental delay
  • Hearing or vision impairment
  • Affective disorder
  • History of epilepsy or seizure
  • Previous experience of general anesthesia

Trial design

Primary purpose

Prevention

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

Double Blind

86 participants in 2 patient groups

Virtual reality (VR) group
Experimental group
Description:
Immersive education using a 360-degree VR video tour at operation day
Treatment:
Behavioral: a 360-degree VR video tour
Control Group
No Intervention group
Description:
Conventional verbal education of preoperative proceudres

Trial documents
1

Trial contacts and locations

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