This prospective, randomized-controlled multicenter study investigates whether virtual reality-assisted patient education in patients undergoing transfemoral transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) can improve patient understanding and simulative orientation, thereby reducing postinterventional complications, resulting in significantly shorter length of stay.
High-grade aortic valve stenosis
Indication for elective transfemoral transcatheter aortic valve implantation under analgesia (TAVI)
Existing heart center decision
Age ≥ 18 years
Surgery planned under general anesthesia
Language barrier, defined as insufficient language proficiency at the discretion of the investigator to understand the purpose of the trial and follow the VR application.
Severe hearing impairment, preventing the patient from understanding the sound of the VR goggles, tested with the VR goggles fitted without using the VRAP-Heart software
Severe visual impairment that prevents viewing of the VR modules if it is not possible to use existing visual corrections (contact lenses, glasses) together with the VR glasses in the event of defective vision, tested with the VR goggles fitted without using the VRAP-Heart software
Heinrich-Heine University, Duesseldorf
Lead sponsor
Edwards Lifesciences
Collaborator