Ana Maria is a 61-year-old man living in Mexico City. She has never been to a nearby mountain relic because she suffers from high blood pressure. Extreme heights may lead to increased blood pressure and burst blood vessels. But today, she wears a white robe and climbs into the ancient pyramid. Of course, this is in virtual reality; at the same time, Ana is actually still undergoing surgery.
Ana is actually working in a private clinic in Mexico City and is about to undergo a leg lipomatectomy. However, unlike general surgery, she only injected a small amount of local sedatives because her usual blood pressure has reached 183/93. The Surgeon Surgeon doctor José Luis Mosso Vazquez, wearing a fashionable black VR head and wearing Ana's head, began running the Egyptian adventure.
At this point, the surgeon had already begun the first incision, and Ana completely forgot about her deep operating room, but was immersed in the atmosphere of the ancient Egyptian pyramids and explored various contents. The monitoring instrument showed all her vital signs parameters were very stable. Of course, Dr. Mosso has been observing the situation all along. Once the signs are not stable, he is also prepared for low-dose sedatives.
Twenty minutes passed, and the surgery was completed. Ana even said that she had almost no pain, including little care when the scalpel cut the lipoma, because she was focusing on relic exploration and mystery. During the entire operation, her blood pressure not only did not increase but decreased.
Is virtual reality a better sedative?
After reading this real case, you may feel that you doubt the letter, virtual reality can actually replace the sedatives? To some extent, the answer is yes.
Dr. Mosso was an activist in the field. His first contact with VR was because of his son. At that time, he was completely immersed in the Spider-Man VR game. Even his wife told him to eat, he did not care. So he thought, is it possible to use this stuff for patients?
Then, Mosso used a VR game instead of a small dose of sedatives in a gastrointestinal endoscopy and found that it worked well. Since then, he has started discussions with patients to use VR games instead of sedatives in minor surgery. Of course, the entire process is back-up plan, and most patients also support it.
In fact, the idea of ​​using VR content instead of sedatives is not only thought by Dr. Mosso. As early as 2006, cognitive psychologist Hunter Hoffman conducted experiments and the team developed a snowball throwing game called SnowWorl. Oculus Rift was still in the DK2 beta version.
In the experiment, the tester wore a shock device on his wrist and he would occasionally send current to stimulate the user, which has a noticeable tingling sensation. In addition, the testers also wore electrocardiogram monitoring equipment to monitor changes in signs. The result: when playing the throwing snowball game, the tester hardly felt the sting of the electric shock, but once it was out of the VR world, it would feel very painful and the ECG monitoring data had fully explained the problem.
In the end, after testing a number of different age, sexually-transmitted health testers, the Hunter Hoffman team concluded that VR games can reduce pain by at least 50%.
Dr. Mosso met another psychologist at a seminar. He was actually using the same game (Spider-Man). He also did endoscopic research. There were as many as 10 cases, but the psychology. Home VR heads are more advanced than Mosso. The conclusion is similar to that of the hero. The psychologist then presented Mosso with a headline and persuaded a colleague from the San Diego Virtual Reality Medical Center to help Mosso develop VR content.
Everyone can use
Since then, Dr. Mosso has returned to Mexico to begin extensive testing with better VR heads-ups and content, ranging from pregnancy tests, childbirth, and even cardiac recovery surgery. The best results are minor surgeries such as lipomas, cysts, and hernia surgery. Virtual scenes mostly focus on landscape exploration, including rivers, mountains, ruins, and so on.
Dr. Mosso said that VR content is also critical. Although shooting games can make patients more focused, they are prone to excitement and have more security risks. The quiet and mysterious world is more suitable for relaxation while maintaining focused attention. . Of course, Dr. Mosso did not completely abandon the sedatives, using half-dose for some of the more sensitive patients, and some do not have to be injected at all.
In a few years, Dr. Mosso performed about 350 operations. Although there is no exact figure, he estimates that VR content can reduce the overall cost of surgery by 25%. What is even better is that some patients need only local anesthesia and can return home after the operation is completed, whereas general anesthesia usually requires hospitalization for at least one day.
In addition, VR content is clearly more suitable than sedatives in poor areas where medical conditions are extremely poor and there are no hospitals. Dr. Mosso also carried out charitable care activities in poverty-stricken mountainous areas near Mexico. The elderly and children can basically complete the operation without sedatives with the help of VR content.
The meaning of VR goes far beyond entertainment
Obviously, the application of VR technology is far from being limited to games and entertainment. Before consumer-grade VR headlines emerged, the US military facilitated the use of virtual reality technology to help soldiers recover psychological problems such as post-war trauma.
Including Bloomberg and other mainstream foreign media have also reported that Stanford University has conducted a large number of clinical-level research on VR technology, it can indeed be called an effective psychological pain relief tool that can calm the nervous system and suppress pain.
Currently, at Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, Samsung Gear VR and VR content specifically designed for individual patients have been widely used for pain relief treatment to reduce the frequency and quantity of users taking painkillers. Coupled with the above-mentioned Dr. Mosso of Mexico, I believe that VR will have a bigger role in the medical field.
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