First Responder Virtual Reality Simulator to train and assess emergency personnel for mass casualty response.

ABSTRACT: As mass casualty incidents continue to escalate in the United States, we must improve frontline responder performance to increase the odds of victim survival. In this article, we describe the First Responder Virtual Reality Simulator, a high-fidelity, fully immersive, automated, programmable virtual reality (VR) simulation designed to train frontline responders to treat and triage victims of mass casualty incidents. First responder trainees don a wireless VR head-mounted display linked to a compatible desktop computer. Trainees see and hear autonomous, interactive victims who are programmed to simulate individuals with injuries consistent with an explosion in an underground space. Armed with a virtual medical kit, responders are tasked with triaging and treating the victims on the scene. T

SUBMITTER: Kman NE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9933861 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature