NCT05510141

Virtual Reality Games in Pediatric Surgery

A Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing Virtual Reality Games Versus Nitrous Oxide for Pain Reduction in Common Outpatient Procedures in Pediatric Surgery

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 100 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Insel Gruppe AG, University Hospital Bern · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 6 Years – 15 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Randomized controlled trial reporting the pain levels and pain control/reduction of children at the age of 6-15 undergoing surgical procedures by using virtual reality gaming (VR) compared to nitrous oxide. Therefore, 50 patients in each treatment group are recruited, resulting in 100 children altogether. The pain levels and pain control/reduction is measured by the standard anesthesia protocol normally used when nitrous oxide is applied and questionnaires that are administered to the patients at baseline and two weeks after surgery including both the primary and secondary outcome.

Conditions

• Analgesia
• Surgical Procedure, Unspecified
• Immersion

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Virtual reality gaming	Instead of nitrous oxide, which is the standard procedure, virtual reality gaming is applied to reach pain reduction in minor surgery procedures
DRUG	Nitrous oxide	Standard procedure

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-08-24
• Primary completion: 2024-10-01
• Completion: 2024-10-01
• First posted: 2022-08-22
• Last updated: 2024-04-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Switzerland