Empowering Children Through Virtual Reality: A New Alternative to General Anesthesia for MRI
VR sessions were associated with a significant improvement in caregiver perceptions and enabled successful completion of MRI scans without the need for sedation in all children initially considered to require anesthesia. While no statistically significant reduction in anxiety was observed, the intervention resulted in diagnostic-quality imaging with minimal motion artifacts, supporting its utility as a strategy to facilitate pediatric MRI without anesthesia.
Authors
- Elka Miller (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1075-5952)
- Nicholas Barrowman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4704-9595)
- Cassandra Kapoor (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3301-6346)
- Daniela Pohl (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2996-7210)
- Neetika Gupta (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7869-3255)
- Ewa Sucha
- Hillel S. Maresky (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1844-9909)
- Marcus Head (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-8466-919X)
- Tania Dafer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-3695-2419)
Institutions
- University of Ottawa (CA)
- Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CA)
- Hospital for Sick Children (CA)
- Temple University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Canadian Association of Radiologists Journal
- Published
- 2025-12-17
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1177/08465371251398724
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Pediatric Pain Management Techniques
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 3.49