| Autor: |
Blanca Toledo del Castillo, Jorge Alejandro Pérez Torres, Lidia Morente Sánchez, María Escobar Castellanos, Laura Escobar Fernández, María Isabel González Sánchez, Rosa Rodríguez Fernández |
| Jazyk: |
Spanish; Castilian |
| Rok vydání: |
2019 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Anales de Pediatría (English Edition), Vol 91, Iss 2, Pp 80-87 (2019) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
2341-2879 |
| DOI: |
10.1016/j.anpede.2018.10.007 |
| Popis: |
Introduction: Potentially painful invasive procedures are often performed for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes in hospitalised paediatric patients. Approaches, such as virtual reality (VR), should be sought in order to minimise pain and anxiety during these procedures. Materials and methods: Hospitalised patients between 4 and 15-years-old requiring an invasive procedure were included. Pain and anxiety evaluation scales were given to children, relatives and health workers. A comparison was made with patients in whom VR was used (with or without concomitant use of a prilocaine/lidocaine 2.5% analgesic cream) and patients in whom neither VR nor analgesic cream were used. Results: The study included 58 patients, 38 in the VR group and 20 in the control group. Pain scores, as performed by patients, relatives and health workers, significantly decreased in the VR group (control group median 4/5 vs. VR group median 1/5, P |
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