Barbara Atzori

Barbara AtzoriBarbara Atzori has a degree in Psychology at the University of Florence. She has studied virtual reality analgesia for children and adolescents and has collaborated with Hunter Hoffman since 2012. She's a P.h.D. student (Department of Health Science, University of Florence) and she's conducing her researches in partnership with Meyer Children's Hospital of Florence and with a Private Dental Practice. Her researches are focused on children and adolescents pain management using VR analgesia during several painful procedures, in particular in odontoiatric and oncological settings.

Publications

Virtual Reality as Distraction Technique for Pain Management in Children and Adolescents
Virtual Reality as Distraction Technique for Pain Management in Children and Adolescents
Barbara Atzori, Hunter G. Hoffman, Laura Vagnoli, Andrea Messeri, Rosapia Lauro Grotto. © 2019. 12 pages.
For a growing number of medical procedures, patients remain awake during the procedure, they feel pain during the medical procedure, and they remember the pain after the...
Virtual Reality as Distraction Technique for Pain Management in Children and Adolescents
Virtual Reality as Distraction Technique for Pain Management in Children and Adolescents
Barbara Atzori, Hunter G. Hoffman, Laura Vagnoli, Andrea Messeri, Rosapia Lauro Grotto. © 2018. 11 pages.
For a growing number of medical procedures, patients remain awake during the procedure, they feel pain during the medical procedure, and they remember the pain after the...