Combination of Virtual Reality and Standard of Care Versus Standard of Care Alone for Acute Musculoskeletal Pain Management in Geriatric Emergency Department Patients: A Randomized Clinical Trial

Status: Recruiting
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Intervention Type: Other
Study Type: Interventional
Study Phase: Not Applicable
SUMMARY

The proposed Virtual Reality as an Adjunct to Pain Management for Geriatric Patients in the ED (VRAP-ED) project will take place in the Emergency Medicine Department at Maimonides Medical Center. It seeks to enhance the analgesic practices for geriatric patients with acute painful conditions in the emergency setting. Although virtual reality (VR) has demonstrated effectiveness in reducing pain and anxiety in various clinical settings for juveniles and adults, the analgesic efficacy of VR for geriatric ED patients lacks established data. The project will use a geriatric-focused VR platform. The project intends to improve pain management for almost 200 geriatric patients by evaluating the effectiveness of virtual reality (VR) in reducing pain and its impact on anxiety \& stress reduction. The research project will conduct a randomized clinical trial to investigate the analgesic efficacy and impact on anxiety \& stress by using VR as an adjunct to the standard of care (SOC) for pain management in elderly patients presenting to the ED with acute musculoskeletal pain. This will be investigated through a prospective, randomized, non-blinded clinical trial conducted over two years. Eligible patients will be randomly assigned to either the control (SOC) or intervention (SOC+VR) groups. The expected outcomes of this research study will provide insight into the feasibility of using VR in a busy emergency setting for one of the most commonly encountered painful syndromes and to assess the analgesic efficacy as well as the satisfaction of VR application by both patients and ED clinicians.

Eligibility
Participation Requirements
Sex: All
Minimum Age: 65
Maximum Age: 120
Healthy Volunteers: f
View:

• age of 65+

• Emergency Medicine patients

• non traumatic musculoskeletal painful condition

• pain score of 4+ on the numeric rating scale

• patient will warrant parenteral analgesia per treating physician

• patient will have to be awake, alert, and oriented to person, place, and time.

• comprehension of informed consent process and study related content

• ability to complete assessments

Locations
United States
New York
Maimonides Medical Center
RECRUITING
Brooklyn
Contact Information
Primary
Sergey Motov, MD
smotov@maimo.org
718-283-6000
Backup
Antonios Likourezos, MA, MPH
alikourezos@maimo.org
Time Frame
Start Date: 2024-11-18
Estimated Completion Date: 2026-12-31
Participants
Target number of participants: 180
Treatments
Active_comparator: Standard of Care (SOC)
Analgesia as determined by the treating physician
Active_comparator: Virtual Reality (VR) + Standard of Care (SOC)
Analgesia as determined by the treating physician and Virtual Reality experience that will use a geriatric-focused VR platform that has age appropriate VR content and will run for approximately 5-10 minutes
Related Therapeutic Areas
Sponsors
Leads: Antonios Likourezos

This content was sourced from clinicaltrials.gov