Virtual Reality + Ketamine: Immersive Therapy for Anxiety and Pain During Procedures

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Immersive Psychiatry

Brandon Birckhead, MD, MHDS

7 episodes

1 week ago

The Immersive Psychiatry podcast is for anyone interested in learning about the uses of immersive technology (virtual reality, augmented reality) in healthcare. Dr. Brandon Birckhead is a physician who has been working on virtual reality clinical studies since 2016. The goal of this series is to illustrate the numerous ways this technology will impact psychiatry using specific mental health-related examples in each episode.

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Virtual Reality + Ketamine: Immersive Therapy for Anxiety and Pain During Procedures

Immersive Psychiatry

24 minutes 59 seconds

4 years ago

Virtual Reality + Ketamine: Immersive Therapy for Anxiety and Pain During Procedures

In this episode, we will talk about procedures that cause anxiety or pain that have been paired with immersive technology (most often with virtual reality). We will start with a use case that is specific to psychiatry with the combination of virtual reality with ketamine infusions for chronic pain. Then we will go back to when I started exploring the uses of VR with my work using it during dental procedures. In the second half of the episode, we will talk about hospital-based procedural pain and anxiety along with the research for those areas.

By the end of the episode, you will know about the kinds of software programs used for procedural pain and anxiety

Floating 2-D TV screens (aka a void theater, check out Netflix VR if you have a headset)
Immersive VR games for pain reduction
Relaxing 360-degree videos
Relaxing Immersive VR environments
VR programs with psychological content - Biofeedback with breath or heart rate and guided relaxation.

Links to resources

Ketamine (disclaimer there are no published papers on what Dr. Omer Liran has done with VR, but this is the closest thing)

Combining Ketamine and Virtual Reality Pain Control During Severe Burn Wound Care: One Military and One Civilian Patient

Dentistry

The Impact of Virtual Reality Distraction on Pain and Anxiety during Dental Treatment in 4-6 Year-Old Children: a Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial

Virtual Reality Distraction for Pain Control During Periodontal Scaling and Root Planing Procedures

Virtual Reality Relaxation to Decrease Dental Anxiety: Immediate Effect Randomized Clinical Trial

Pediatrics

Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Virtual Reality in Pediatrics: Effects on Pain and Anxiety

Guided relaxation-based virtual reality versus distraction-based virtual reality or passive control for postoperative pain management in children and adolescents undergoing Nuss repair of pectus excavatum: protocol for a prospective, randomized, controlled trial (FOREVR Peds trial)

Provider-controlled virtual reality experience may adjust for cognitive load during vascular access in pediatric patients

Virtual reality during pediatric vascular access: A pragmatic, prospective randomized, controlled trial