Vr Technology Proves Better Than Anti-anxiety Meds In Coronary Angiography

Patients undergoing coronary angiography often acquisition worry some earlier and during nan procedure, often treated by nan management of anti-anxiety medications. A caller study being presented astatine nan American College of Cardiology (ACC) Middle East 2025 Together pinch 16th Emirates Cardiac Society Conference recovered virtual reality (VR) efficaciously reduced worry during nan process and had much unchangeable captious signs than patients receiving modular care.

Virtual reality offers an innovative solution to negociate and trim nan worry of patients undergoing an interventional cardiovascular procedure, for illustration coronary angiography, that they are typically awake during."

Yousef Radwan Alnomani, Clinical Researcher, Benha University

Coronary angiography is portion of a group of cardiac tests known arsenic cardiac catheterization, which utilizes catheters to find blockages and/or spot stents successful nan vessels of nan heart. Coronary angiography uses X-rays during nan process to spot if nan humor alloy is narrowed aliases blocked during nan test of coronary artery disease. In coronary angiography, nan modular of attraction is to supply anti-anxiety medications to nan diligent earlier and during nan procedure.

Virtual reality is simply a machine simulation that enables a personification to interact pinch computer-generated 3-D visuals aliases different sensory environments.

Researchers analyzed information from 5 randomized controlled tests comprising 451 patients comparing VR to modular of attraction successful patients undergoing coronary angiography. Some of nan VR scenarios utilized included quality scenes for illustration waterfalls, mountains and valleys, designed to induce a authorities of relaxation that whitethorn trim worry and stabilize captious signs successful these patients, Alnomani said. VR during coronary angiography was recovered to beryllium superior to nan modular of attraction successful reducing worry and was associated pinch importantly little changes successful bosom complaint and humor pressure. While VR earlier coronary angiography did trim anxiety, it did not show efficacy.

"Immersing patients successful a 3D simulation offers amended relaxation than conscionable watching a akin video connected a screen," Alnomani said.

Limitations of nan study see its retrospective nature. Larger, randomized controlled tests are needed successful nan early to find nan wide usage of VR successful improving attraction of patients undergoing coronary angiography and different cardiovascular interventions.