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2025 Jan 23


Anaesth Crit Care Pain Med


39862969

Virtual reality for reduction of intraprocedural pharmacological sedation and analgesia in adult patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Authors

Zako J, Daccache N, Morisson L, Richebé P, Laferrière-Langlois P

Abstract

Pharmacological sedation and analgesia are used to alleviate discomfort during awake medical procedures but can cause adverse effects like apnea and hypoxemia, increasing the need for airway management and prolonging recovery. Virtual reality (VR) has emerged as a non-pharmacological intervention to reduce the need for procedural sedatives and analgesics.