Effect of Virtual Reality on the Need of Premedication Before Surgery
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age18+
SponsorEnte Ospedaliero Cantonale, Bellinzona
About this trial
This study will assess, on patients requesting a pharmacological premedication in the preoperative period, if virtual reality reality could reduce the request of pharmacological premedication while maintaining a good level of comfort for the patient. The aim of this study is to understand if virtual reality could reduce the need for pharmacological premedication and their associated secondary effects.
Eligibility criteria
Qualifiers
All patients undergoing elective surgery
Minimal age of 18-year-old
Able to give informed consent for the study
Requesting pharmacological premedication in the pre-operative period.
Disqualifiers
Lacking capacity or ability to complete the consent form or to respond to the required obligations linked to the study protocol
Contraindications to pharmacological premedication
Known cognitive dysfunction, previous history of neurological/psychiatric diseases like epilepsy
Non Italian speaking patients
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- Virtual Reality
Treatment groups
40 Participants
are divided into 1 treatment groupSponsors and collaborators
Source ClinicalTrials.gov