NCT05194176

The Effect of Virtual Reality on Pulmonary Recovery and Mobility in Patients With Blunt Chest Trauma

• Status: Terminated
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 27 (actual)
• Sponsor: Radboud University Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 16 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Blunt chest trauma comprises over 10% of all trauma patients presenting to emergency departments worldwide and is the most frequent injury in polytrauma patients. It is associated with high risk (\>10%) of pulmonary complications such as pneumonia. Pillars of treatment are adequate pain relief, respiratory function exercises and rapid mobilisation through physiotherapy. Inadequate pain control can result in restricted ventilatory function and in reduced mobility, both resulting in a higher risk of particularly pulmonary complications. Virtual Reality (VR) might be an easy to use, individualized, and harmless technique that can facilitate pulmonary recovery and aid in the prevention of complications through reducing pain and promoting exercising. The investigators hypothesize that VR improves respiratory function and mobilisation in the post-acute phase of blunt chest trauma by distracting patients from pain and stress, and by stimulating pulmonary and physical exercise.

Conditions

• Blunt Chest Trauma

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Virtual Reality	For all VR exercises a head mounted display (HMD), the PICO G2 4K (Barcelona, Spain) will be used. Together with SyncVRMedical (Utrecht, Netherlands) a VR dashboard has been created from which patients can chose the different exercises.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-03-28
• Primary completion: 2023-02-23
• Completion: 2023-02-23
• First posted: 2022-01-18
• Last updated: 2023-03-08

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Netherlands