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Lenovo is targeting VR as an alternative to anesthesia

Avoid fear and painful stimuli of an operation by replacing VR with anesthesia: Lenovo starts a test that provides excellent results.

Gianluca Ricciodi Gianluca Riccio
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Lenovo is targeting VR as an alternative to anesthesia
November 10, 2019
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Whether you are an adult or a child, medical procedures can be painful or stressful enough to cause repulsion, or even panic.

It is one of the reasons why anesthesia is increasingly preferred: it keeps patients away from those small painful stresses that would cause a fearful and "uncooperative" escalation.

Anesthesia, however, is still a use of substances that are not without some risk and toxicity, and especially for children it should not be abused.

Lenovo and the Starlight Children's Foundation tested sets of virtual reality as an alternative to general anesthetics for children, relieving panic and pain and distracting pediatric patients from what is really going on around them.

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The pilot project of Starlight it started in hospitals starting last January. Doctors, who had found VR very useful in medical education, realized that VR-based "distracting" anesthesia also has a lot of clinical potential.

In the short film recently presented by Lenovo, “New Realities”, with VR, doctors have successfully performed even invasive procedures such as endoscopy with only local anesthetic, while other procedures do not require any anesthesia when combined with VR.

"The human brain has limited bandwidth for what it can pay attention to"he explains Joe Albeitz, one of the pediatricians participating in the Starlight program. “The more involved you are in the virtual experience, the less your brain is able to perceive the pain signals that are coming. And if you don't pay attention to them, you practically don't warn them ”.

We are already there

At present, the technology is practically ready for use: Lenovo's Mirage Solo VR headsets with common games and apps, all curated by Starlight (rather than Google) for age-appropriate content. The children wore the immersive equipment during lumbar punctures for spinal fluid, dressing of damaged limbs, and other procedures. And they actually enjoyed the entertainment without focusing on painful things.

VR anesthesia
VR can also help children in post-operative recovery, making them feel included in otherwise inaccessible contexts and environments

"It has a profound impact on the quality of life of our hospitalized children", he claims Albeitz, noting that children often need anesthesia for otherwise distressing procedures. “We are seeing children who needed general anesthesia. I am now able to be fully awake with minimal medication. "

In the future, Albeitz expects VR to be used to virtually bring sick children from their hospital beds to normal life. “We may be able to take technology to the point where we can put them in their class, in real time. Follow the lesson with their teachers and their classmates, even while they are still in bed ", suggest.

Ok kids, but if you give me one of these like that when I go to the dentist, make me happy too.

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