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VR x Patient Experience

Alex Gerrese, Ben Hubsch, Quentin Harris, Chase Plancher, Val Slepak Connecting children with friends and family through virtual reality.

1.5M children

x

3.9 day average stay

=

5.85M days

22,500 children spend time in an intensive care unit. 1,125 of those pediatric hospitalizations stay more than 19 days. In total, these 1,125 children spend 22,000 days annually in intensive care. 30 million Americans do not have access to trauma care within an hour of their home.

WHY VR?

Education Distraction Therapy Rehabilitation Therapy

• Dr. Michael Zychowicz

Director of MSN program in DUSON

• Dr. Ann Louise Butt

Medical VR researcher at Utah College of Nursing

• Dr. Marianne Ditomassi

Executive Director of Nursing at Massachusetts General Hospital

• Dr. Suzan Kardong-Edgren

Director of Research and Innovation at Robert Morris University

Marie Graham

Director of Virtual and Augmented Reality Center at Mount Vernon School

• Dr. Valerie Howard

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in DUSON

PEDIATRIC ICU HOME

Richmond, VA Durham, NC

446 mi. 3 hour drive

PROGRESS SO FAR

Conversations with Duke medical professionals Online and medical journal research Demoed conversational VR software Identified key stakeholders Grants and funding research

• Dec. 5th

Present to Dr. Veerajalandhar Allareddy Trial Run Acquire headsets and launch test in Duke’s Pediatric Cardiac ICU.

2019

Duke Expansion Expand the program to more families in the Pediatric ICU.

Late 2019

Beyond Duke Introduce the program to other leading pediatric hospitals, such as NYU.

2020

• Dec. 6th

Child Life Presentation

NEXT STEPS

FUTURE IMPLICATIONS

Introducing VR to hospitals will expose nurses to the tech so it can spread to other departments.

Questions?

Alex Gerrese, Ben Hubsch, Quentin Harris, Chase Plancher, Val Slepak