Video distraction calms kids during cancer treatment | 90 Seconds w/ Lisa Kim
Watching distracting videos helps children with cancer avoid the need for anesthesia during radiation treatments, a Stanford Medicine-led study has found. Video-based distraction also reduces children’s anxiety and improves their quality of life as they undergo radiation therapy.
“It’s very important that patients don’t move during radiation treatment, and that they’re not upset or having a traumatizing time during treatment,” said co-senior study author Susan Hiniker, MD, assistant professor of radiation oncology at the Stanford School of Medicine. Hiniker is a radiation oncologist at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health and Stanford Health Care and was part of the team that developed the video setup.
“Many young kids can almost cooperate with the treatment, but being alone in a treatment room for 20 to 30 minutes and having to be really still can be quite challenging,” she said. “If we can get them engrossed in paying attention to something, such as a video they enjoy, that really helps.”
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