Mass Casualty Incident Training in Immersive Virtual Reality: Quasi-Experimental Evaluation of Multimethod Performance Indicators.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Immersive virtual reality (iVR) has emerged as a training method to prepare medical first responders (MFRs) for mass casualty incidents (MCIs) and disasters in a resource-efficient, flexible, and safe manner. However, systematic evaluations and validations of potential performance indicators for virtual MCI training are still lacking.

Objective

This study aimed to investigate whether different performance indicators based on visual attention, triage performance, and information transmission can be effectively extended to MCI training in iVR by testing if they can discriminate between different levels of expertise. Furthermore, the study examined the extent to which such objective indicators correlate with subjective performance assessments.

Methods

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SUBMITTER: Baetzner AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11811659 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature