Virtual Reality in Laryngology

Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM)

Status

Completed

Conditions

Pain Management During Office Laryngeal Procedures

Treatments

Other: Virtual Reality Headset

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT05218967

20-01021300

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to compare patient's pain and anxiety undergoing laryngeal procedures and esophageal manometry while wearing a VR headset to standard of care. It is hypothesized that patient's using the VR headset during the procedure will have reduced pain and anxiety as compared to their standard of care counterparts because the VR environment will distract them from their procedure.

Full description

This is a prospective randomized controlled trial, comparing patients' pain and anxiety experience while wearing a VR headset and receiving standard analgesia during In-office aerodigestive procedures (IOAEP) to patients' experience receiving standard analgesia only during IOAEP.

Enrollment

40 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Adult patients (18 or older)
Patients scheduled for IOAEP, including laryngeal biopsies, percutaneous injection laryngoplasty, KTP ablation of hemorrhagic polyps and respiratory papilloma, and transnasal esophagoscopy (TNE), and esophageal manometry.

Exclusion criteria

Patients under 18 years of age
Patients unable to consent
Non-English-speaking patients
Patients who have undergone prior IOAEP
Patients who have used any psychotropic or analgesic medication within the last 24 hours due to the possible confounding effect on pain or anxiety perception
Patients with motion sickness or uncorrected visual impairment (legal blindness)
Patients with past medical history of seizures or visual abnormalities