Question Pain and anxiety are common in children who need procedures such as
administering vaccines or drawing blood. Recent reports have described the use of virtual …

BACKGROUND: Medical procedures often evoke pain and anxiety in pediatric patients.
Virtual reality (VR) is a relatively new intervention that can be used to provide distraction …

Objective: A large number of children report fear and distress when undergoing blood work
and intravenous placement. In pediatric departments, Child Life interventions are …

Post-surgical pain has been consistently reported in pediatrics as being difficult to manage
and limiting to surgical outcomes. Pain management of children is not ideal, and some …

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Pain management in children often is inadequate, and
the single most common painful procedure in children who are hospitalized is needle …

The objective of this study was to compare the effect of virtual reality to passive distraction
and standard care on burn treatment pain in adolescents. This single-blinded, randomized …

Children must often endure painful procedures as part of their treatment for various medical
conditions. Those with chronic pain endure frequent or constant discomfort in their daily …

Aims This integrative review aimed to identify, analyse and synthesise studies investigating
the clinical efficacy of virtual reality (VR) distraction for children undergoing varying painful …

Changing daily wound dressings provokes a substantial amount of pain in patients with
severe burn wounds. Pharmacological analgesics alone often are inadequate to solve this …

For daily burn wound care procedures, opioid analgesics alone are often inadequate. Since
most burn patients experience severe to excruciating pain during wound care, analgesics …