the Effectiveness of Therapeutic Virtual Reality Versus Pharmacological Sedation on Pain and Anxiety During Interventional Cardiology Procedures

Prospective Randomized Comparative Study Evaluating the Efficacy of Therapeutic Virtual Reality Versus Pharmacological Sedation on Pain and Anxiety During Interventional Cardiology Procedures

Immersion sedation in virtual reality could be an alternative to conventional pharmacological sedation, during interventional cardiology acts on pain and anxiety control.

The objective of this study is to determine whether virtual reality immersion is non-inferior to drug sedation on pain and anxiety, during coronary angiography or angioplasty.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Adult patient
• who must benefit from one of the following scheduled interventional cardiology outpatient procedures: coronary angiography, coronary angioplasty, peripheral angioplasty (lower limbs)
• Affiliation to a social security scheme or beneficiary of such a scheme.
• Patient having signed the free and informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

• Dementia
• Language barrier
• Claustrophobia
• Nausea
• History of intolerance to Virtual Reality
• Patient with epilepsy
• Refusal to participate in the study
• Protected patient: minor, adult under guardianship, curatorship or other legal protection, deprived of liberty by judicial or administrative decision
• Pregnant, breastfeeding or parturient woman
• Unstable patient (state of shock, respiratory or neurological distress)