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Virtual Reality for Acute Pain and Anxiety During Egg Retrieval for in Vitro Fertility Treatment

Belgium300 participantsStarted 2023-02-01

Plain-language summary

This study is a comparison between the current standard practice of performing a transvaginal oocyte retrieval (TVOR) with paracervical block (PCB) and a relatively recently developed technology of virtual reality that is added to the above mentioned standard practice of TVOR + PCB. The aim of the study is to find out whether this newer technology has an advantage for the patient, in terms of anxiety and pain reduction or satisfaction.

Who can participate

Age range18 Years – 40 Years

SexFEMALE

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Exclusion criteria

✕. Hearing impairments and blindness
✕. Motion sickness
✕. Any known anatomical characteristics that may make performing the office procedure impossible.
✕. Patients undergoing a general anesthesia or conscious sedation
✕. lack of informed consent
✕. Chronic alcohol/drug abusers
✕. Transabdominal approach for retrieval
✕. Patients undergoing oocyte retrieval for fertility preservation before cancer or genotoxic treatment - oncofertility preservation

What they're measuring

Difference in visual analog scale score for Pain

Timeframe: 1/ pre-procedure baseline 2/ immediately after the procedure and 3/ 5days after TVOR

Trial details

NCT IDNCT05438238

SponsorUniversitair Ziekenhuis Brussel

Sponsor typeOTHER

Study typeINTERVENTIONAL

Primary completion2023-12

Contact for this trial

Valerie Schutyser, MD

+32 2 477 2676 dr.valerie.schutyser@gmail.com

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