VirtualCPR: Virtual Reality Mobile Application for Training in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Techniques

Deaths due to heart diseases are a leading cause of death in Mexico. Cardiovascular diseases are considered a public health problem because they produce cardiorespiratory arrests. During an arrest, cardiac and/or respiratory activity stops. A cardiorespiratory arrest is rapidly fatal without a quick...

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Published in:Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Switzerland), 2021-04, Vol.21 (7), p.2504
Main Authors: García Fierros, Francisco Javier, Moreno Escobar, Jesús Jaime, Sepúlveda Cervantes, Gabriel, Morales Matamoros, Oswaldo, Tejeida Padilla, Ricardo
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Applications programs
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
Cardiovascular disease
CPR
Data transmission
First aid
Force measurement
head mounted display
Heart
immersive system
Mannequins
mobile application
Mobile communications networks
Mobile operating systems
Murders & murder attempts
Operating systems
Public health
Resuscitation
Smartphones
Teaching
Training
Variance analysis
Virtual reality
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Summary:Deaths due to heart diseases are a leading cause of death in Mexico. Cardiovascular diseases are considered a public health problem because they produce cardiorespiratory arrests. During an arrest, cardiac and/or respiratory activity stops. A cardiorespiratory arrest is rapidly fatal without a quick and efficient intervention. As a response to this problem, the VirtualCPR system was designed in the present work. VirtualCPR is a mobile virtual reality application to support learning and practicing of basic techniques of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) for experts or non-experts in CPR. VirtualCPR implements an interactive virtual scenario with the user, which is visible by means of employment of virtual reality lenses. User’s interactions, with our proposal, are by a portable force sensor for integration with training mannequins, whose development is based on an application for the Android platform. Furthermore, this proposal integrates medical knowledge in first aid, related to the basic CPR for adults using only the hands, as well as technological knowledge, related to development of simulations on a mobile virtual reality platform by three main processes: (i) force measurement and conversion, (ii) data transmission and (iii) simulation of a virtual scenario. An experiment by means of a multifactorial analysis of variance was designed considering four factors for a CPR session: (i) previous training in CPR, (ii) frequency of compressions, (iii) presence of auditory suggestions and (iv) presence of color indicator. Our findings point out that the more previous training in CPR a user of the VirtualCPR system has, the greater the percentage of correct compressions obtained from a virtual CPR session. Setting the rate to 100 or 150 compressions per minute, turning on or off the auditory suggestions and turning the color indicator on or off during the session have no significant effect on the results obtained by the user.
ISSN:1424-8220
1424-8220
DOI:10.3390/s21072504