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Q&A: Can virtual reality experiences calm patients’ nerves going into open-heart surgery?

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Virtual reality helped calm patients’ nerves before cardiac surgery. Holistic anxiety reduction may be ...
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Virtual reality helps South Florida boy avoid open-heart surgery, return to baseball field

MIAMI — A South Florida boy is back on the baseball field after doctors used virtual reality technology to treat a complex heart defect without open-heart surgery. Matthew, 12, was born with a ...
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Thursday's child has far to go: One-week-old had heart surgery using 3D virtual reality technology

Theodore Evans was born on a Thursday. Three days later, on Dec. 8, 2024, as the family prepared to go home from Lakeview Hospital in Covington, Veronica Evans handed her son off to a nurse for his ...
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Manning Family Children’s is first in Louisiana to use Virtual Reality Segmentation Technology to improve pediatric heart surgery

This article is brought to you by Manning Family Children's. Veronica Even expected to bring her newborn, Theodore, home for Christmas. Instead, she watched as he was rushed to Manning Family Children ...