Paul Wischmeyer’s Post [Video]

This is a great way to encourage and engage patients! I appreciate the level of alertness these patients require to engage in this, and the efforts set forth by the whole interdisciplinary team to implement this! Kudos! 👏🏼 I also wonder how this will impact the incidence of delirium in this population. I would imagine it would decrease the incidence because it encourages engagement from the patients, and of course further encourages the team to more aggressively wean from sedation so this can happen. Very cool to see! 🙌🏼

If these patients are alert and coordinated enough to do this, then what is keeping them on the vent?

Why are these guys still intubated? Take it out and use NIV if necessary!

Love it. I wonder what they were watching. We are going to try with a long term vented patient with GBS but we needed something with limited hand controller motion

Wish I had this VR rig during intubation/ventilation and rehabilitation from a near-death Covid-19 experience at Mount Nittany Medical Center, Geisinger, and Hershey Medical Rehab hospitals. Yes, that was me in that bed less than 3 short years ago. All wired up like that with a trach too! Thanks to my fabulous PTs/OTs/STs/RTs/ST2s and all other kinds of therapists (7 different ones some days), I am back up and running, teaching 1,600 business students some introductory Finance at Penn State University this academic year. Grateful to all my doctors, nurses, aides, family members, and therapists of all sorts who made this happen. And of course, all glory to God for allowing me back onto this Earth to do more great things every single day!

Yes of course, VR reduces anxiety and pain and increases enjoyment. Nice application. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9278931/ The big challenge is creating the right platform to provide VR for patients. I helped to develop and currently use WAVR - Wide Awake VR, Inc.

An obvious need that’s been unrealized for decades I had this idea 20 years ago with NASA with built-in exercise platforms on a bed and an early version of VR. Being in a bed is like being in space And the long term affects are serious. Astronauts have to exercise 2 1/2 hours a day as a counter measure and they are fit. Compare that to an ICU patient who is already physically compromised and you begin to see why this is so important.

Incredible. Technology gives us so many opportunities to help heal people if we are willing to think outside the box. I remember when the Wii first came out many rehabilitation centers used it to work on balance, strengthening, endurance, etc. Any opportunity to get patients active and moving will have yield benefits to their health both mental and physical and not just during their hospitalization but also their long term functional outcomes. Kudos and keep up the good work!

👩⚕️ Fascinating development! Leveraging VR technology in this manner can potentially play a vital role in patient well-being and mental health, especially when confined to an ICU setting. It's impressive to see the innovative ways in which we can humanize and optimize patient care during such critical periods. While physical mobility remains paramount, these advances offer a psychological escape that might help in patient recovery. Kudos to the team behind this and thank you, Paul Wischmeyer, for sharing such a coll initiative! ✨🏥🔍

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