Design and Development of a Virtual Reality Simulator for Advanced Cardiac Life Support Training

The use of virtual reality (VR) training tools for medical education could lead to improvements in the skills of clinicians while providing economic incentives for healthcare institutions. The use of VR tools can also mitigate some of the drawbacks currently associated with providing medical trainin...

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Published in:IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics 2014-07, Vol.18 (4), p.1478-1484
Main Authors: Vankipuram, Akshay, Khanal, Prabal, Ashby, Aaron, Vankipuram, Mithra, Gupta, Ashish, DrummGurnee, Denise, Josey, Karen, Smith, Marshall
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Advanced cardiac life support (ACLS)
Advanced Cardiac Life Support - education
Computer Simulation
Computer-Assisted Instruction - instrumentation
design
Humans
Life support systems
medical training
Patients
Protocols
Servers
Solid modeling
Training
Usability
User-Computer Interface
Video Games
Virtual reality
virtual reality (VR)
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Summary:The use of virtual reality (VR) training tools for medical education could lead to improvements in the skills of clinicians while providing economic incentives for healthcare institutions. The use of VR tools can also mitigate some of the drawbacks currently associated with providing medical training in a traditional clinical environment such as scheduling conflicts and the need for specialized equipment (e.g., high-fidelity manikins). This paper presents the details of the framework and the development methodology associated with a VR-based training simulator for advanced cardiac life support, a time critical, team-based medical scenario. In addition, we also report the key findings of a usability study conducted to assess the efficacy of various features of this VR simulator through a postuse questionnaire administered to various care providers. The usability questionnaires were completed by two groups that used two different versions of the VR simulator. One version consisted of the VR trainer with it all its features and a minified version with certain immersive features disabled. We found an increase in usability scores from the minified group to the full VR group.
ISSN:2168-2194
2168-2208
DOI:10.1109/JBHI.2013.2285102