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Research Studies is a compilation of published research articles funded by AHRQ or authored by AHRQ researchers.
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1 to 3 of 3 Research Studies DisplayedKman NE, Price A, Berezina-Blackburn V
First Responder Virtual Reality Simulator to train and assess emergency personnel for mass casualty response.
This paper describes 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 wear a wireless VR head-mounted display linked to a compatible desktop computer. Autonomous, interactive victims who are programmed to simulate individuals with injuries consistent with an explosion in an underground space are used. The trainees are armed with a virtual medical kit, who are then tasked with triaging and treating the victims on the scene. Increased challenges can be added such as increasing the environmental chaos, adding patients, or increasing the acuity of patient injuries.
AHRQ-funded; HS025915.
Citation: Kman NE, Price A, Berezina-Blackburn V .
First Responder Virtual Reality Simulator to train and assess emergency personnel for mass casualty response.
J Am Coll Emerg Physicians Open 2023 Feb;4(1):e12903. doi: 10.1002/emp2.12903.
Keywords: Emergency Medical Services (EMS), Simulation, Health Information Technology (HIT), Training, Emergency Preparedness
Farra SL, Miller ET, Gneuhs M
Disaster management: communication up, across, and down.
This case study uses the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative’s (NPLI) meta-leadership model as the guiding framework for developing and implementing an evacuation exercise focused on the safe evacuation of neonates. Key components of this framework include strategies for communicating up, across, and down among various stakeholders.
AHRQ-funded; HS023149.
Citation: Farra SL, Miller ET, Gneuhs M .
Disaster management: communication up, across, and down.
Nurs Manage 2017 Jul;48(7):51-54. doi: 10.1097/01.NUMA.0000520720.78549.e4..
Keywords: Emergency Preparedness, Communication, Nursing, Case Study
Cicero MX, Whitfill T, Munjal K
60 seconds to survival: a pilot study of a disaster triage video game for prehospital providers.
The researchers hypothesized that players of the video game "60 Seconds to Survival" (60S) would have greater improvements in disaster triage accuracy compared to control subjects who did not play 60S. The video game intervention demonstrated a significant improvement in accuracy from baseline to time 2 while the control did not.
AHRQ-funded; HS022837.
Citation: Cicero MX, Whitfill T, Munjal K .
60 seconds to survival: a pilot study of a disaster triage video game for prehospital providers.
Am J Disaster Med 2017 Spring;12(2):75-83. doi: 10.5055/ajdm.2017.0263.
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Keywords: Emergency Medical Services (EMS), Emergency Preparedness, Training