An Affordable, Virtual Reality Based Training Application for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

Abstract

In Medical science, proficiency in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) is considered as a vital skill for physicians. For training CPR, medical professionals use mechanical manikin which has some drawbacks when it comes to the realism of the simulation and the feedback of performance. This paper presents a Virtual Reality (VR) based solution to address some of these shortcomings. The approach here is augmenting the mechanical manikin with VR using HTC Vive, Leap Motion Controller, and a glove. To test the acceptance of this solution, a user-based evaluation was carried out. 85.7% of the users who have participated in the evaluation have expressed their preference upon using VR in CPR training. Even though the overall evaluation depicts a neutral output, this study opens avenues for future research in combining VR into medical training processes.