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Creating a Novel Disaster Medicine Virtual Reality Training Environment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2020

Laurent Gout ,
Alexander Hart Open the ORCID record for Alexander Hart [Opens in a new window] ,
Charles-Henri Houze-Cerfon ,
Ritu Sarin ,
Gregory R. Ciottone  and
Vincent Bounes
Laurent Gout
Affiliation:
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Toulouse, Médecin Urgentiste, Toulouse, Midi-Pyrénées, France SAMU-31, Hôpitaux de Toulouse, Toulouse, Midi-Pyrénées, France
Alexander Hart
Affiliation:
Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Fellowship in Disaster Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts USA Department of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts USA
Charles-Henri Houze-Cerfon
Affiliation:
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Toulouse, Médecin Urgentiste, Toulouse, Midi-Pyrénées, France
Ritu Sarin
Affiliation:
Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Fellowship in Disaster Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts USA Department of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts USA
Gregory R. Ciottone
Affiliation:
Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Fellowship in Disaster Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts USA Department of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts USA
Vincent Bounes
Affiliation:
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Toulouse, Médecin Urgentiste, Toulouse, Midi-Pyrénées, France SAMU-31, Hôpitaux de Toulouse, Toulouse, Midi-Pyrénées, France
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Abstract

Introduction:

Disasters are high-acuity, low-frequency events which require medical providers to respond in often chaotic settings. Due to this infrequency, skills can atrophy, so providers must train and drill to maintain them. Historically, drilling for disaster response has been costly, and thus infrequent. Virtual Reality Environments (VREs) have been demonstrated to be acceptable to trainees, and useful for training Disaster Medicine skills. The improved cost of virtual reality training can allow for increased frequency of simulation and training.

Problem:

The problem addressed was to create a novel Disaster Medicine VRE for training and drilling.

Methods:

A VRE was created using SecondLife (Linden Lab; San Francisco, California USA) and adapted for use in Disaster Medicine training and drilling. It is easily accessible for the end-users (trainees), and is adaptable for multiple scenario types due to the presence of varying architecture and objects. Victim models were created which can be role played by educators, or can be virtual dummies, and can be adapted for wide ranging scenarios. Finally, a unique physiologic simulator was created which allows for dummies to mimic disease processes, wounds, and treatment outcomes.

Results:

The VRE was created and has been used extensively in an academic setting to train medical students, as well as to train and drill disaster responders.

Conclusions:

This manuscript presents a new VRE for the training and drilling of Disaster Medicine scenarios in an immersive, interactive experience for trainees.

Keywords

disaster medicinelow resourcetechnologytrainingvirtual reality
Type
Brief Report
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 35 , Issue 2 , April 2020 , pp. 225 - 228
Copyright
© World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2020

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Footnotes

Note: Drs. Ciottone and Bounes are Co-Senior Authors.

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