Stud Health Technol Inform. 1997;39:473-85.

A distributed virtual environment prototype for emergency medical procedures training.

Studies in health technology and informatics

S B Banks, B W Garcia, G M Godsell-Stytz, M R Stytz

PMID: 10168942

Abstract

Because of the increasing complexity of emergency medical care, medical staffs require increasingly sophisticated training systems. Virtual environments offer a low cost means to achieve a widely usable yet sophisticated training capability. We describe the Virtual Emergency Room (VER) project, a simulation system designed to enable emergency department personnel within level I and II emergency rooms to practice emergency medical procedures and protocols. Because emergency rooms are manned by a wide variety of medical professionals, we are developing a simulation facility that uses a distributed virtual environment architecture to enable real-time, multi-participant simulations. The potential advantages of this system include the ability to evaluate and refine treatment skills, and the ability to provide scenario-specific training for mobile military field hospital teams. These advantages will ultimately improve the readiness of emergency department staffs for a wide variety of trauma situations. This paper describes the VER and the major components of its distributed virtual environment. The current capabilities of our system are described followed by a discussion of recommended follow-on work.

MeSH terms

• Computer Simulation*
• Computer-Assisted Instruction / methods*
• Emergency Service, Hospital*
• Humans
• Inservice Training / methods*
• User-Computer Interface*

Publication Types

• Journal Article

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