scholarly journals VIRTUAL REALITY AS COMPLEMENTARY TREATMENT IN PAIN RELIEF IN BURNT CHILDREN

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soliane Scapin ◽  
Maria Elena Echevarría-Guanilo ◽  
Paulo Roberto Boeira Fuculo Junior ◽  
Andreia Tomazoni ◽  
Natália Gonçalves
Keyword(s):  
Heart Rate ◽  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Oxygen Saturation ◽  
Treatment Center ◽  
Clinical Parameters ◽  
Southern Brazil ◽  
Complementary Treatment ◽  
Burn Treatment ◽  
Nursing Team ◽  
Larger Sample

ABSTRACT Objective: to report the use of virtual reality and its effects on clinical parameters, pain and its consequences in the treatment of two burned children in a Burn Treatment Center in southern Brazil. Method: case report on the use of virtual reality in two burned children treated at a reference burn treatment center in southern Brazil. Data were collected from January to February 2017, using the variables: pain, distraction, clinical parameters (heart rate and oxygen saturation) and analgesic medications. The measurements were carried out in five occasions and the intervention was applied for three days. The reports and reactions of children, guardians and the nursing team were also registered. Results: the use of virtual reality during dressings reduced the pain between two to four points on the scale used; oxygen saturation remained between 96 and 98%; heart rate decreased after the intervention. The children reported having fun, less time thinking about pain and were more collaborative during the procedure. Conclusion: this technology is innovative in the treatment of burned children and proved to be effective for the analyzed variables. New clinical studies with a larger sample are needed in the Brazilian context to contribute to these findings.

scholarly journals VIRTUAL REALITY AS COMPLEMENTARY TREATMENT IN PAIN RELIEF IN BURNT CHILDREN

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soliane Scapin ◽  
Maria Elena Echevarría-Guanilo ◽  
Paulo Roberto Boeira Fuculo Junior ◽  
Andreia Tomazoni ◽  
Natália Gonçalves
Keyword(s):  
Heart Rate ◽  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Oxygen Saturation ◽  
Treatment Center ◽  
Clinical Parameters ◽  
Southern Brazil ◽  
Complementary Treatment ◽  
Burn Treatment ◽  
Nursing Team ◽  
Larger Sample

ABSTRACT Objective: to report the use of virtual reality and its effects on clinical parameters, pain and its consequences in the treatment of two burned children in a Burn Treatment Center in southern Brazil. Method: case report on the use of virtual reality in two burned children treated at a reference burn treatment center in southern Brazil. Data were collected from January to February 2017, using the variables: pain, distraction, clinical parameters (heart rate and oxygen saturation) and analgesic medications. The measurements were carried out in five occasions and the intervention was applied for three days. The reports and reactions of children, guardians and the nursing team were also registered. Results: the use of virtual reality during dressings reduced the pain between two to four points on the scale used; oxygen saturation remained between 96 and 98%; heart rate decreased after the intervention. The children reported having fun, less time thinking about pain and were more collaborative during the procedure. Conclusion: this technology is innovative in the treatment of burned children and proved to be effective for the analyzed variables. New clinical studies with a larger sample are needed in the Brazilian context to contribute to these findings.

scholarly journals Use of virtual reality for treating burned children: case reports

2017 ◽  
Vol 70 (6) ◽  
pp. 1291-1295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soliane Quitolina Scapin ◽  
Maria Elena Echevarría-Guanilo ◽  
Paulo Roberto Boeira Fuculo Junior ◽  
Jerusa Celi Martins ◽  
Mayara da Ventura Barbosa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Facial Pain ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Case Reports ◽  
Treatment Center ◽  
Southern Brazil ◽  
Burn Treatment ◽  
Relevant Effect ◽  
Dressing Change ◽  
Pain Rating Scale

ABSTRACT Objective: To report the use of virtual reality (VR) in pain intensity during dressing change of two burned children hospitalized in a Burn Treatment Center (BTC) in Southern Brazil. Method: Case report on the use of VR during dressing change of two burned children hospitalized in a BTC, from May to July 2016. For assessing pain, a facial pain rating scale was applied at four times: just before the dressing, during the dressing without the use of VR, during the dressing with the VR, and after the use of VR. Results: The use of goggles was easy to apply and well-accepted by the children, and also had a relevant effect reducing pain. Conclusion: VR can become an important nonpharmacological method for treating pain in burned children.

scholarly journals The safety of induced sputum collection in infants under the age of 18 months

2001 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 16-19
Author(s):  
H. Van Wyk ◽  
R. Jacquemard ◽  
G. Joubert
Keyword(s):  
Heart Rate ◽  
Mycobacterium Tuberculosis ◽  
Side Effects ◽  
Oxygen Saturation ◽  
Sample Size ◽  
Pneumocystis Carinii ◽  
Induction Method ◽  
Sputum Induction ◽  
Small Children ◽  
Larger Sample

The technique of sputum induction improves the yield of microbiological investigations for organisms such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Pneumocystis carinii. The aim of the study was to determine the safety of this method in children under the age of 18 months. Heart rate and oxygen saturation were monitored during the procedure and compared with measurements obtained during the conventional method of sputum collection in the same patients. Patients were also observed for other possible side effects. Forty samples of sputa were obtained from 20 patients. No clinical differences in heart rate and oxygen saturation were found between the two methods. Overall, oxygen saturation measurements below 80% were recorded in three patients. Increased coughing and mild epistaxis did occur more frequently during the sputum induction method. It was concluded that sputum induction is safe in small children, but a larger sample size needs to be studied.

The Effects of Passive and Active Smoking on Brachial and radial Blood Pressure and Some Other Physical Factors in Healthy Young Adults

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 259
Author(s):  
Shireen H. Ramadhan ◽  
Shamil K. Talal ◽  
Wasfiya A. Moner
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Heart Rate ◽  
Oxygen Saturation ◽  
Oxygen Concentration ◽  
Tobacco Smoke ◽  
Blood Pressure Measurement ◽  
Reference Level ◽  
Physical Factors ◽  
New Device ◽  
Active Smoker

Tobacco smoke is enormously harmful to human health, there’s no safe way to smoke. The primary objective of this study is to analyze the role of tobacco smoke compounds and their ability to damage the cardiovascular system and, in particular, to interfere with blood pressure (Brachial and radial pressure), heart rate and partly on the percentage blood Oxygen saturation. A new device has been manufactured which is unique for measuring the level of smoke, to obtained privies readings, the device had fixed to the first reference level آ and starting up from it. The effect of smoking has been studied on (26) male passive (26) active smoker volunteer, (14) female passive and (14) female active smoker participants. The results has been showed that the blood pressure and heart rate has been increased with increasing the number of cigarettes in both genders for passive and active smokers. However, this effect for male was more pronounced comparing with females for passive and active smokers. In the case of oxygen saturation concentration percentage, for males the change of oxygen concentration percentage was not stable. In other words, it was fluctuated with the number of cigarettes. But for females the oxygen concentration was decreased but not too much. This means that this effect was not pronounced. this study found آ that the most pronounced effect has been shown by male’s comparison to females for both passive and active smokers. As well as in nonsmoker’s males, the relation between heart rate and smoke level is inversely proportional. While in male and female smokers and female nonsmokers the relation is proportional. In all cases the relation between the smoke level and time of smoking is inversely proportional. Finally males& females are affected differently by tobacco use; the sensitivities to smoke for males are higher than in females for passive and active smokers in both brachial and radial blood pressure measurement.

scholarly journals Multiclass emotion prediction using heart rate and virtual reality stimuli

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron Frederick Bulagang ◽  
James Mountstephens ◽  
Jason Teo
Keyword(s):  
Heart Rate ◽  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Nearest Neighbor ◽  
Subject Classification ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Display Device ◽  
K Nearest Neighbor ◽  
Potential Applications ◽  
Health Rehabilitation ◽  
Emotion Model

Abstract Background Emotion prediction is a method that recognizes the human emotion derived from the subject’s psychological data. The problem in question is the limited use of heart rate (HR) as the prediction feature through the use of common classifiers such as Support Vector Machine (SVM), K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN) and Random Forest (RF) in emotion prediction. This paper aims to investigate whether HR signals can be utilized to classify four-class emotions using the emotion model from Russell’s in a virtual reality (VR) environment using machine learning. Method An experiment was conducted using the Empatica E4 wristband to acquire the participant’s HR, a VR headset as the display device for participants to view the 360° emotional videos, and the Empatica E4 real-time application was used during the experiment to extract and process the participant's recorded heart rate. Findings For intra-subject classification, all three classifiers SVM, KNN, and RF achieved 100% as the highest accuracy while inter-subject classification achieved 46.7% for SVM, 42.9% for KNN and 43.3% for RF. Conclusion The results demonstrate the potential of SVM, KNN and RF classifiers to classify HR as a feature to be used in emotion prediction in four distinct emotion classes in a virtual reality environment. The potential applications include interactive gaming, affective entertainment, and VR health rehabilitation.

scholarly journals Neonatal wearable device for colorimetry-based real-time detection of jaundice with simultaneous sensing of vitals

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (10) ◽  
pp. eabe3793
Author(s):  
Go Inamori ◽  
Umihiro Kamoto ◽  
Fumika Nakamura ◽  
Yutaka Isoda ◽  
Azusa Uozumi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heart Rate ◽  
Oxygen Saturation ◽  
Neonatal Jaundice ◽  
Treatment Approach ◽  
Combined Treatment ◽  
Simultaneous Detection ◽  
Clinical Experiments ◽  
Simultaneous Sensing ◽  
Severe Hyperbilirubinemia ◽  
Transcutaneous Bilirubinometer

Neonatal jaundice occurs in >80% of newborns in the first week of life owing to physiological hyperbilirubinemia. Severe hyperbilirubinemia could cause brain damage owing to its neurotoxicity, a state commonly known as kernicterus. Therefore, periodic bilirubin monitoring is essential to identify infants at-risk and to initiate treatment including phototherapy. However, devices for continuous measurements of bilirubin have not been developed yet. Here, we established a wearable transcutaneous bilirubinometer that also has oxygen saturation (SpO2) and heart rate (HR) sensing functionalities. Clinical experiments with neonates demonstrated the possibility of simultaneous detection of bilirubin, SpO2, and HR. Moreover, our device could consistently measure bilirubin during phototherapy. These results demonstrate the potential for development of a combined treatment approach with an automatic link via the wearable bilirubinometer and phototherapy device for optimization of the treatment of neonatal jaundice.

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