ArticleJournal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open2023
First Responder Virtual Reality Simulator to train and assess emergency personnel for mass casualty response.
Article in Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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- Effectiveness of VR and traditional training in medical education for mass casualty management: an OSCE-based randomized controlled trial.BMC medical education · 2026Trial
- Teaching through technology: comparing student experiences of VR and computer simulations in orthoptics education.Bioelectronic medicine · 2026Article
- Learning components for mixed reality mass casualty incident training: a modified Delphi study.BMC medical education · 2026Article
- Virtual Reality Simulation for Assessment of Hemorrhage Control and SALT Triage Performance: A Comparison of Prehospital to In-Hospital Emergency Responders.Prehospital and disaster medicine · 2025Article
- Mass Casualty Incident Training in Immersive Virtual Reality: Quasi-Experimental Evaluation of Multimethod Performance Indicators.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
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- Evaluation of high-fidelity and virtual reality simulation platforms for assessing fourth-year medical students' encounters with patients in need of urgent or emergent care.Annals of medicine · 2024Article
- A Low-Cost, Low-Tech Virtual Mass Casualty Training Simulation for Undergraduate Medical Education.Cureus · 2024Article
- SALT triage training and virtual reality demonstration.Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open · 2024Article
- Implementation of a workshop for mass casualty incident triage training using an immersive virtual reality simulation.AEM education and training · 2024Article
- Learner evaluation of an immersive virtual reality mass casualty incident simulator for triage training.BMC digital health · 2024Article
- First Responder Virtual Reality Simulator to train and assess emergency personnel for mass casualty response.Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open · 2023Article
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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. The VR environment can be made more challenging by increasing the environmental chaos, adding patients, or increasing the acuity of patient injuries. The VR platform tracks and records their performance as they navigate the disaster scene. Output from the system provides feedback to participants on their performance. Eventually, we hope that the First Responder system will serve both as an effective replacement for expensive conventional training methods as well as a safe and efficient platform for research on current triage protocols.
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