Virtual reality alleviates pain, anxiety for pediatric patients
From: Stanford Medicine News Center - 09/07/2017

Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford is one of the first hospitals in
the country to begin implementing distraction-based VR therapy within every
patient unit.

As patients at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford undergo routine
medical procedures, they are being whisked away to swim under the sea, zap
flying cheeseburgers in outer space, catch basketballs using their heads, and
fly on paper airplanes through the sky, thanks to virtual-reality technology,
which is being implemented throughout the hospital to help ease patients'
feelings of pain and anxiety.

Read the entire article at:
http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2017/09/virtual-reality-alleviates-pain-anxiety-for-pediatric-patients.html

Links:
Packard Children’s Childhood Anxiety Reduction through Innovation and
  Technology (CHARIOT)
http://web.stanford.edu/group/chariot/cgi-bin/wordpress

Bedside Entertainment and Relaxation Theater (BERT)
http://healthier.stanfordchildrens.org/en/doctors-garage-lucile-packard-childrens-hospital-stanford-launches-innovative-program-reduce-anxiety-kids-going-surgery

Sevo the Dragon
http://healthier.stanfordchildrens.org/en/sevo-the-dragon-takes-the-stress-out-of-surgery-and-anesthesia-for-young-patients