Preliminary Study on the Multi-person Cooperative Training Module in the Application of Virtual Reality Technology to the Advanced Cardiac Life Support

Advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) is a first-aid procedure that is implemented by multiple individuals through collaboration within a limited time, and it is a necessary first-aid procedure in hospitals. According to the statistics, the number of patients with prehospital cardiac arrest is as high as 20000 per year in Taiwan, but no more than 3% of patients recover and leave the hospital. Hence, it could be seen that cardiopulmonary resuscitation is a first-aid procedure that should be urgently enhanced in emergency medical services, and the training of first-aid members in ACLS is very important. Those ACLS team members also need high communication, tacit understanding and cooperation abilities, in the team besides the professional ability in first-aid. Besides traditional training, this study hoped to integrate the two different VR immersion technologies into ACLS clinical first-aid training, including: (1) fully immersive virtual reality technology; and (2) semi-immersive virtual reality cave technology (VR-CAVE). Finally, it could be seen from the interview results that the incorporation of the VR and VR Cave training structures into ACLS clinical first-aid training could make up for the defects of current ACLS first-aid teaching methods and reach the object of multi-person ACLS training. It could be a new multi-person cooperative training method for ACLS teams in clinical first-aid treatment.