Comparison of hemodynamic responses between conventional and virtual reality therapies in patients with heart failure admitted to an emergency room

ABSTRACT This study aimed to evaluate and compare the acute response, due semi-immersive virtual reality (VR) conventional therapies (CT), of hemodynamic parameters in hospitalized individuals admitted an emergency unity for heart failure (HF). is a viability with 11 subjected sessions without VR. At CT, stretching, active or active-assisted exercises, fractional inspiration were performed. In VR therapy (VRT), box glasses used promote relaxation associated CT. The evaluated rate, systolic diastolic blood pressure, oxygen saturation, double product. To analyze them, Student’s t- Mann Whitney tests (p<0.05). Comparing baseline final evaluations showed no significant differences both groups (p>0.05). absolute variations between CT VRT also produced responses Results that administering promoted physiological changes HF unit two interventions. suggests hemodynamically safe method treating patients units.