Alessandro Forgiarini, Laura Deroma, Fabio Buttussi, Nicola Zangrando, Sabrina Licata, Francesca Valent, Luca Chittaro, Antonio Di Chiara
In the increasing number of medical education topics taught with virtual reality (VR), the prehospital management of ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) had not been considered. This article proposes an implemented VR system for STEMI training and introduces it in an institutional course addressed to emergency nurses and case manager (CM) doctors. The system comprises three different applications to, respectively, allow (a) the course instructor to control the conditions of the virtual patient, (b) the CM to communicate with the nurse in the virtual field and receive from him/her the patient's parameters and electrocardiogram, and (c) the nurse to interact with the patient in the immersive VR scenario...
March 25, 2024: Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking