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Virtual medicine: how virtual reality is easing pain, calming nerves and improving health
Author(s) -
Spiegel Brennan MR
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/mja17.00540
Subject(s) - citation , medicine , library science , computer science
1 Patients using virtual reality (VR): a patient ot so far in the future, doctors might prescribe a virtual beach vacation to calm aches and pains, in hospitalised with a sickle cell pain crisis flies over Icelandic fjords in a helicopter to combat pain through distraction therapy (A);* and a patient with Crohn’s disease is transported back to his own living room, where a VR camera has been placed to transmit 360 images to his hospital room (B)y