Virtual Reality for Anxiety in Interventional Radiology Procedures

Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if virtual reality works to reduce anxiety in patients undergoing interventional radiology procedures. The main questions it aims to answer are: Does virtual reality lower anxiety in patients undegoing minimally invasive procedures? Can it help the platient's compliance and operators' satisfaction? Researchers will compare virtual reality to usual preoperative care to see if virtual reality is effective. Participants will: Use virtual reality for 20 minutes before the intervention starts. Complete questionnaires before and after the procedure.

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

* Indication to CT-guided biopsy in local anesthesia
* Informed consent signature

Exclusion Criteria:

* Lack of patient consent to trial.
* Lack of eligibility to perform CT-guided needle biopsy, or eligibility to perform the procedure but with administration of general anesthesia or sedation.
* patients who do not speak Italian or English will be excluded;
* patients with visual and/or hearing impairment;
* patients on analgesics or anxiolytics;
* patients with the following conditions: dementia, psychiatric disorders; headache, dizziness, recent head injury, epilepsy, and other conditions in which the application of VR glasses has been judged to be potentially harmful; and when the topical anesthetic (lidocaine and prilocaine \[eutectic mixture of local anesthetic (EMLA)\]) or tetracaine (Ametop) was not properly applied before surgery.

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