Intensive Care Unit-Specific Virtual Reality for Psychological Recovery After ICU Treatment for COVID-19; A Brief Case Report

Johan Vlake; Jasper van Bommel; Merel Hellemons; Evert-Jan Wils; Diederik Gommers; Michel van Genderen

doi:10.3389/fmed.2020.629086

Intensive Care Unit-Specific Virtual Reality for Psychological Recovery After ICU Treatment for COVID-19; A Brief Case Report

Johan Vlake, Jasper van Bommel, Merel Hellemons, Evert-Jan Wils, Diederik Gommers, Michel van Genderen

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A substantial number of ICU survivors are expected due to the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak, who are at risk for psychological impairments, such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety, and depression. We designed a COVID-19 intensive care unit-specific virtual reality (ICU-VR) intervention and tested it on one of our COVID-19 patients. The impact of event scale-revised and the hospital anxiety and depression scale showed that this patient suffered from PTSD, anxiety, and depression on the day of the intervention. One week after receiving ICU-VR, levels of PTSD, anxiety and depression had normalized, and stayed normalized until 6 months after discharge. In conclusion, innovative technologies, such as VR, have the potential to improve psychological rehabilitation, and should therefore be considered by clinicians for the treatment of ICU-related psychological sequelae after COVID-19.

Original language	English
Article number	629086
Journal	Frontiers in Medicine
Volume	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2020.629086
Publication status	Published - 5 Feb 2021

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This project was funded by BeterKeten (foundation), Stichting Coolsingel (foundation), DSW, Stichting Thea (foundation), and Stichting SGS (foundation). The funding sources had no role in writing this manuscript.

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© Copyright © 2021 Vlake, van Bommel, Hellemons, Wils, Gommers and van Genderen.

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