{"id":264,"date":"2019-09-05T10:43:46","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T17:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/arvrha\/?p=264"},"modified":"2019-09-05T10:44:50","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T17:44:50","slug":"vr-for-reducing-severe-pain-in-hospitalized-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/arvrha\/2019\/09\/05\/vr-for-reducing-severe-pain-in-hospitalized-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"VR for Reducing Severe Pain in Hospitalized Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VR has been found to be effective for severe pain in hospitalized patients and could be potentially used as a non-drug option for analgesia as a strong distraction mechanism.<\/p>\n<p>A recent published study has found in a randomized controlled trial of 120 patients that VR has yielded in a significant pain reduction during the 48 and 72 hour post intervention period.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit the study website: <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0219115\">https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0219115<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VR has been found to be effective for severe pain in hospitalized patients and could be potentially used as a non-drug option for analgesia as a strong distraction mechanism. A recent published study has found in a randomized controlled trial of 120 patients that VR has yielded in a significant pain reduction during the 48 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18093,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1570073,1570081],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vr-news","category-vr-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/arvrha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/arvrha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/arvrha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/arvrha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18093"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/arvrha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/arvrha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/arvrha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions\/266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/arvrha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/arvrha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/arvrha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}