Many people are trained in Basic Life Support techniques, such as CPR, which are designed to sustain life until more advanced help is available. Hospital clinicians are trained in Advanced Life Support (ALS) techniques, which identify and reverse the initial cause of the cardiac arrest.
Since the implementation of processes to better identify the early signs of deterioration, cardiac arrests are becoming less frequent in the inpatient setting. As a result, hospital clinicians are receiving less exposure to managing cardiac arrests but are still required to perform effectively as a team when they do occur.
The ALS-SimVR application is designed to provide team leader training for clinicians managing a patient in a cardiac arrest. The application allows the user to direct a virtual team in all the tasks required of a team managing a patient in a cardiac arrest. Rhythm interpretation, drug doses, pathology results, ABG results are all randomised to create a new experience each time for the user. Key skills required for ALS management are also available as skills trainers within the application including handover practice, defibrillation, cardioversion and pacing and more in development.
The design of the "Learnsuite" collection of trainers allows a clinician to take the VR headset home and complete this immersive training in the location and time of their choosing.
Many people are trained in Basic Life Support techniques, such as CPR, which are designed to sustain life until more advanced help is available. Hospital clinicians are trained in Advanced Life Support (ALS) techniques, which identify and reverse the initial cause of the cardiac arrest. Since the implementation of processes to better identify the early signs of deterioration, cardiac arrests are becoming less frequent in the inpatient setting. As a result, hospital clinicians are receiving less exposure to managing cardiac arrests but are still required to perform effectively as a team when they do occur.
The ALS-SimVR application is designed to provide team leader training for clinicians managing a patient in a cardiac arrest. The application allows the user to direct a virtual team in all the tasks required of a team managing a patient in a cardiac arrest. Rhythm interpretation, drug doses, pathology results, ABG results are all randomised to create a new experience each time for the user. Key skills required for ALS management are also available as skills trainers within the application including handover practice, defibrillation, cardioversion and pacing and more in development.The design of the "Learnsuite" collection of trainers allows a clinician to take the VR headset home and complete this immersive training in the location and time of their choosing.
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Exploring User Needs in the Development of a Virtual Reality–Based Advanced Life Support Training Platform: Exploratory Usability Study
ALS-SimVR: Advanced Life Support Virtual Reality Training Application
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Randomisation of the cardiac rhythm and recording of user performance against key KPIs allows the user to practice the real time interpretation of cardiac rhythms in the setting of a cardiac arrest.
Common ALS medications are available for administration by the team and the medication administration is graded against the ARC council guidelines depending if the patient is on the shockable or non-shockable side of the algorithm.
Randomised arterial blood gasses are available for interpretation by the team leader, which will have an impact on which reversible causes of cardiac arrest are marked correct.
Randomised ECGs are available for interpretation by the team leader, which will have an impact on which reversable causes of cardiac arrest are marked correct.
All decisions made within the scenario are recorded in realtime and made available for review by the user by referring to the scribe nurses resuscitation chart.
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