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Virtual reality and music may help lower blood pressure during emergencies (opens in a new tab)
news-medical.net · 2026-09-25
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Virtual reality and music may help lower blood pressure during emergencies
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Claim 1 of 5Not checkedA virtual reality landscape of a flowing river and trees, accompanied by classical music, can help reduce patients' blood pressure significantly within 15 minutes of being seen in an emergency department.View evidenceHide evidence
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Claim 2 of 5Not checkedIn a randomized controlled trial of 130 adult emergency-department patients with hypertensive urgency, viewing natural landscapes through a VR headset while listening to classical music also reduced anxiety.View evidenceHide evidence
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Claim 3 of 5Not checkedAt 15 minutes, the VR group had a larger blood-pressure reduction than the control group, with the article saying the gap was about 4–5 mmHg and statistically significant; after about 30 minutes the groups were no longer significantly different.View evidenceHide evidence
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Claim 4 of 5Not checkedThe study also reported a greater reduction in anxiety in the VR group, with trait anxiety falling by about eight points versus about four points in controls over the observation period.View evidenceHide evidence
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Claim 5 of 5Not checkedThe article says the intervention was safe, feasible, inexpensive, easy to use, and without side effects, but that larger multicenter studies and separate testing of VR and music are needed.View evidenceHide evidence
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PubMed, Crossref, Europe PMC · 15 candidate papers
The perils of a "hypertensive" diagnosis.
International Journal of Emergency Medicine · 2026 · PubMed
Role of Antioxidant-Rich Nutraceutical on Body Weights and Mean Arterial Blood Pressure of Salt-Induced Hypertensive Rats
International Journal of Biochemistry & Physiology · 2017 · Crossref
Differentiating malignant hypertension-induced thrombotic microangiopathy from thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura.
2015 · Europe PMC
"A dicey situation:" asymptomatic hypertensive urgency caused by DICER1 mutation-derived cystic nephroma in a 12-month-old.
Pediatric Nephrology (Berlin, Germany) · 2026 · PubMed
A Comparative study of IV Labetalol and IV Hydralazine on mean arterial blood pressure changes in pregnant women with hypertensive emergency
Scholars Journal of Applied Medical Sciences · 2016 · Crossref
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