Virtual Reality in Burn Pain Management

United States Army Institute of Surgical Research

Status

Completed

Conditions

Burns

Pain

Treatments

Procedure: Pain management

Other: Standard of care/no virtual reality game

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other U.S. Federal agency

Identifiers

NCT00593086

H-06-024

Details and patient eligibility

About

To examine the safety and efficacy of Virtual Reality (VR) distraction therapy in burn patients experiencing severe procedural pain during wound care.

Full description

This is a prospective, randomized cross-over study of the safety and effectiveness of the use of a virtual reality distraction intervention to management procedural pain during burn wound care. Up to 20 subjects will be enrolled until 12 complete the study.

Enrollment

26 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 65 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

18 years or oler with thermal injury
Understands English
patient perception of previous wound care procedural pain is greater than 6 on a numeric pain scal of 0-10 where 0= no pain and 10=worst pain ever experienced
ability to use a computer mouse or hit the space bar on a computer keyboard

Exclusion criteria

unhealed burned wounds on face, neck or head
history of severe susceptibility to motion sickness
presence of open woun ds to the hands that cannot be covered with a dressing while operating the control button
patients who report a feeling of anxiety or discomfort while viewing the Snow World software on a computer without the helmet