Use of Virtual Reality for Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Simulation.

Autor: Ralston BH; Division of Cardiology, Children's National Hospital, Washington, DC, USA., Willett RC; Cardiac Critical Care, Children's National Hospital, Washington, DC, USA.; Division of Cardiac Critical Care, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA., Namperumal S; Emergency Medicine, The Permanente Medical Group, San Leandro, USA., Brown NM; Simulation Center, Children's National Hospital, Washington, DC, USA., Walsh H; Simulation Center, Children's National Hospital, Washington, DC, USA., Muñoz RA; Cardiac Critical Care, Children's National Hospital, Washington, DC, USA.; Division of Cardiac Critical Care, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA., Del Castillo S; Cardiac Critical Care, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA.; Critical Care Anesthesiology, Keck School of Medicine at University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA., Chang TP; Emergency Medicine, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA.; Division of Emergency Medicine, Keck School of Medicine at University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA., Yurasek GK; Cardiac Critical Care, Children's National Hospital, Washington, DC, USA.; Division of Cardiac Critical Care, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Cureus [Cureus] 2021 Jun 23; Vol. 13 (6), pp. e15856. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Jun 23 (Print Publication: 2021).
DOI: 10.7759/cureus.15856
Abstrakt: Simulation is a key component of training in the pediatric cardiac intensive care unit (CICU), a complex environment that lends itself to virtual reality (VR)-based simulations. However, VR has not been previously described for this purpose. Two simulations were developed to test the use of VR in simulating pediatric CICU clinical scenarios, one simulating junctional ectopic tachycardia and low cardiac output syndrome, and the other simulating acute respiratory failure in a patient with suspected coronavirus disease 2019. Six attending pediatric cardiac critical care physicians were recruited to participate in the simulations as a pilot test of VR's feasibility for educational and practice improvement efforts in this highly specialized clinical environment. All participants successfully navigated the VR environment and met the critical endpoints of the two clinical scenarios. Qualitative feedback was overall positive with some specific critiques regarding limited realism in some mechanical aspects of the simulation. This is the first described use of VR in pediatric cardiac critical care simulation.
Competing Interests: The authors have declared financial relationships, which are detailed in the next section.
(Copyright © 2021, Ralston et al.)
Databáze: MEDLINE