“SnowWorld” Uses VR as Painkiller or Pain Reduction at Hospital
Recently updated on November 6th, 2021 at 10:19 pm
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| SnowWorld in Action. (Credit: University of Washington) |
Virtual reality aka VR as painkiller has a huge benefit in the hospital and medical industry. This is good especially for kids since it is very hard to handle them during the treatment because they are always moving, crying, screaming or shouting. This might cause the doctors become more stressful in their daily job.
As the last resort to handle the tantrum, usually the doctors will use the sleeping gas to make to make them drowsy and fall asleep or use drugs as pain reliever. Hence, one of the way to overcome that situation is to use virtual reality as a therapy to reduce the pain or as a distraction to the patient. One of the solution is called “SnowWorld“. Example of places already using this solution are Shriners Hospitals for Children in Galveston, Texas and Harborview Burn Center.
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