Virtual restorative environment therapy for burns dressing changes

Completed

• Conditions: Topic: Generic Health Relevance and Cross Cutting Themes; Subtopic: Generic Health Relevance (all Subtopics); Disease: Anaesthetics; Injury, Occupational Diseases, Poisoning

• Registration Number: ISRCTN23330756
• Lead Sponsor: niversity of Birmingham (UK)

Brief Summary

2015 protocol in: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26242401

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2014-02-25
• Study Completion: 2014-04-06
• Last Update Posted: 10 December 2018

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 25

Inclusion Criteria

1. Patients with burns (any cause) admitted to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Burns Unit
2. Those above requiring at least three dressing changes.
3. Those above requiring opioid based analgesia (eg oral morphine, codeine phosphate or tramadol)or inhaled nitrous oxide (entonox) for the dressing change (ie, patients who may potentially experience moderate or severe pain)
Target Gender: Male & Female; Upper Age Limit 90 years ; Lower Age Limit 18 years

Exclusion Criteria

1. Inability to use the interactive distraction equipment eg blindness, severe bilateral hand injuries.
2. Requirement for general anaesthesia or sedation with ketamine or midazolam.
3. Poor cognitive state eg severe dementia, delirium or severe psychiatric illness.
4. Multi-drug resistant infection (due to potential equipment contamination, although low risk, this criteria is appropriate for the feasibility study)

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Worst pain (numerical rating scale); Timepoint(s): During dressing change

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
<br> 1. Anxiety; Timepoint(s): During dressing change<br> 2. Average pain; Timepoint(s): During dressing change<br> 3. Nausea; Timepoint(s): During dressing change<br> 4. Nursing satisfaction with VR system; Timepoint(s): During dressing change<br> 5. Satisfaction with pain management; Timepoint(s): During dressing change<br> 6. Satisfaction with VR distraction; Timepoint(s): During dressing change<br> 7. Worst pain; Timepoint(s): One hour after dressing change<br>