VOA常速英语:VR技术用于手术可奇妙缓解疼痛

Twelve-year-old Tyler Milliken never thought he could play basketball or even walk again after an accident that almost destroyed his leg. I had nine surgeries. A vehicle similar to this one flipped with Millikan’s leg caught in the wheel. His ankle was just hanging on by some tendons. His pain was crazy. Milliken received this unexpected treatment for his pain from the doctors at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, Stanford. It kept my mind off of all the pain. The hospital’s Sam Rodriguez says VR is commonly used here as a way to distract young patients from pain and anxiety. Patients use VR for surgeries and during procedures from wound care to blood draw. We see instances where kids can go from using lots of medications like narcotics and benzodiazepines to not need anything with just a virtual reality distraction based intervention. These VR games are different from traditional screen based video games, says Luke Wilson of Mighty Immersion, the company works with hospitals to develop VR games for patients. We make sure that you can control the entire game with just your head movements. And we make sure that they’re re-orientable, so that the patient, whether they’re lying down or sitting up can enjoy them. VR is also an easy way to keep the patient from seeing what could be visually disturbing procedures. The games never end so the patient can play until the procedure is finished. This is a tool that can and has transformed potentially traumatic experiences at the hospital into more positive ones, and has helped many young patients take fewer pain medications or even avoid general anesthesia for minor procedures while at the hospital.

Elizabeth Lee VOA news Atwater California.