NHS hospital 申し込む/申し出s 妊娠している women VR headsets to let them 事実上 ‘relax on the beach’ and ‘travel to MARS’ to take their mind off the 苦痛 of childbirth

  • University Hospital of むちの跡s in Cardiff is trialling the VR headsets?
  • If successful, it could be rolled out across more NHS maternity 部隊s?
  • Beach scenes, the Northern Lights, and swimming are part of the experience?

A Welsh NHS hospital is 申し込む/申し出ing 事実上の reality experiences for women going into 労働 to help them relax and take their mind off the 苦痛.?

University Hospital of むちの跡s in Cardiff is 実験(する)ing whether 平和的な beaches seen through a headset will 緩和する 不快.

In one seven-minute 開会/開廷/会期, expectant mothers can also watch the Northern Lights, walk on 火星 or の中で penguins and buffalo.

But the soothing 影響s of 静めるing music or a guided voiceover are said to last for 45 minutes.

If the programme is みなすd successful, it could be rolled out across more maternity 部隊s in むちの跡s.

University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff is offering virtual reality experiences for women going into labour to help them relax and take their mind off the pain

University Hospital of むちの跡s in Cardiff is 申し込む/申し出ing 事実上の reality experiences for women going into labo ur to help them relax and take their mind off the 苦痛

The hospital is testing whether peaceful beaches seen through a headset will ease discomfort during the early stages of labour. Pictured,?Hannah Lelii testing the VR headset

The hospital is 実験(する)ing whether 平和的な beaches seen through a headset will 緩和する 不快 during the 早期に 行う/開催する/段階s of 労働. Pictured,?Hannah Lelii 実験(する)ing the VR headset

Head midwife Suzanne Hardacre said there had already been positive feedback, with beach scenes being the most popular (pictured)

長,率いる midwife Suzanne Hardacre said there had already been 肯定的な feedback, with beach scenes 存在 the most popular (pictured)

In one seven minute session, expectant mothers can also watch the Northern Lights

In one seven minute 開会/開廷/会期, expectant mothers can also watch the Northern Lights

In the later 行う/開催する/段階s of 労働, women are often given gas and 空気/公表する, an 注射 of the 麻薬 pethidine or an epidural to help with the 苦痛.

The VR experience could be an 代案/選択肢, Suzanne Hardacre, the 長,率いる of midwifery for Cardiff and Vale health board, told The Times.?

But she said it was ーするつもりであるd for the 早期に 行う/開催する/段階s of 労働 when women are more in 支配(する)/統制する.

Ms Hardacre said: 'For things like 早期に 労働 at the moment we can 申し込む/申し出 water, breathing and 緩和. 事実上の reality just brings another dimension to that.

'It 供給するs us with an 適切な時期 to do something really different, something innovative, something that's not 存在 used どこかよそで.

'There's a 広大な/多数の/重要な 適切な時期 特に to use this with women in 早期に 労働, to try and help them with some breathing and 緩和 and take them out of the moment.'

Ms Hardacre said it also had the 可能性のある to be used with women who 以前 had traumatic birth experiences.

Pregnant women can also walk on Mars or among penguins and buffalo

妊娠している women can also walk on 火星 or の中で penguins and buffalo

Ms Lelii tested the kit ahead of the birth of her first baby this month and was impressed

Ms Lelii 実験(する)d the 道具 ahead of the birth of her first baby this month and was impressed

Ms Lelii told BBC : 'It's genuinely 360 degrees, so when I turn, I've got the view that would be behind me or to the side of me'

Ms Lelii told BBC : 'It's genuinely 360 degrees, so when I turn, I've got the 見解(をとる) that would be behind me or to the 味方する of me'

The hospital will arrange a feedback session after a few months trialling the headsets

The hospital will arrange a feedback 開会/開廷/会期 after a few months trialling the headsets

The headset is a Samsung Gear Gen 2 (pictured) provided by Rescape

The headset is a Samsung Gear Gen 2 (pictured) 供給するd by Rescape?

The hospital will arrange a feedback 開会/開廷/会期 after a few months trialling the headsets to 計器 how mothers 答える/応じるd.

So far, Ms Hardacre said there had already been 肯定的な feedback, with beach scenes 存在 the most popular 同様に as 存在 の中で a herd of buffaloes.

Mother-to-be Hannah Lelii 実験(する) ed the 道具 ahead of the birth of her first baby this month and was impressed.

She told BBC: 'It's genuinely 360 degrees, so when I turn, I've got the 見解(をとる) that would be behind me or to the 味方する of me.

'It helps to get me in a 明言する/公表する of 緩和.'

Ms Lelii said the VR experience may not work for everyone, but choice was important for mothers going into 労働.

The headset is a Samsung Gear Gen 2, 供給するd by Rescape, who 告発(する),告訴(する)/料金 about £4,000 per headset each year in healthcare settings.

Glenn Hapgood, the 創立者 of Rescape, said he was in discussions about 供給するing the 科学(工学)技術 to eight other British maternity 部隊s.

VR headsets have already worked to 減ずる 苦悩 and 苦痛 for women during childbirth and abortions in a US 裁判,公判.?

All of the women 伴う/関わるd in trying VR at Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles said the experience left them いっそう少なく anxious, and most (57 パーセント) said it 減ずるd their 苦痛.?

Another 熟考する/考慮する, at UCLA, 設立する women who used VR headsets for more than five minutes during an abortion in the first trimester felt いっそう少なく anxious.

VIRTUAL REALITY EXPLAINED

事実上の reality is a computer-生成するd 模擬実験/偽ること of an 環境 or situ ation.?

  • It immerses the 使用者 by making them feel like they are in the ふりをするd reality throughimages and sounds
  • For example, in VR, you could feel like you're climbing a mountain while sat at home?

事実上の reality is the 称する,呼ぶ/期間/用語 used to 述べる A three-dimensional, computer 生成するd 環境 which can be 調査するd and interacted with by a person.?

That person becomes part of this 事実上の world or is immersed within this 環境 and whilst there, is able to manipulate 反対するs or 成し遂げる a 一連の 活動/戦闘s.

How is 事実上の reality 達成するd??

事実上の reality is usually 器具/実施するd using computer 科学(工学)技術. There are a 範囲 of systems that are used for this 目的, such as headsets, omni-directional treadmills and special gloves.?

These are used to 現実に 刺激する our senses together ーするために create the illusion of reality.?

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