CPR Module with Variable Chest Stiffness in High Fidelity Mannequins
01 Jan 2013-pp 159-167
TL;DR: This work proposes a CPR mannequin which exhibits a chest with increasing stiffness as the depth of compression is increased, which should improve CPR training efficacy and compares the measured values against acceptance criteria that can be tuned to different standards.
Abstract: Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR), especially chest compression, should be performed promptly on victims of cardiac arrest for improved morbidity. CPR is performed in 2 steps, chest compression and chest ventilation. But, commercially available CPR mannequins do not accurately mimic the viscoelastic properties of the human chest, resulting in poor CPR performance. We propose a CPR mannequin which exhibits a chest with increasing stiffness as the depth of compression is increased; the increased bio-fidelity of this mannequin should improve CPR training efficacy. This mannequin also measures depth and rate of compression, the air volume during chest ventilation, and compares the measured values against acceptance criteria that can be tuned to different standards.
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01 Oct 2017
TL;DR: An immersive Virtual Reality based CPR simulator in which force feedback is provided using a dummy chest with a linear spring mounted on a force plate demonstrates that visual feedback could influence haptics perception of chest compliance and the VR-CPR system could simulate various linear and non-linear chest compliance controlling visual feedback alone.
Abstract: Haptic skills are essential for effective Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR). Existing CPR training simulators provide unrealistic chest conditions. It is assumed that the CPR performance on a real human chest is the same even when the trainees have learnt on unrealistic dummy chests. To test this assumption we have developed an immersive Virtual Reality based CPR simulator in which force feedback is provided using a dummy chest with a linear spring mounted on a force plate. The user applied force is mapped to visual chest compressions modeling various springs, either linear or non-linear. Two groups of subjects were trained either with linear or non-linear chests. Both the groups were tested for their CPR performance on an unknown non-linear chest and their performance score was compared. The % of mean and standard deviation of the score (p value: 0.001) for the group with the non-linear chest is 91.66% and 1.70% and that with linear chest is 86.39% and 3.44% respectively. This suggests that the group that were trained on non-linear chest performed better. The experiments clearly demonstrates that visual feedback could influence haptics perception of chest compliance and the VR-CPR system could simulate various linear and non-linear chest compliance controlling visual feedback alone.
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...The trainees learn CPR skills mostly with linear chests available in the currently existing mannequins, however, they are expected to perform on a real casualty with non-linear human chest [4]....
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23 Mar 2019
TL;DR: The results show that the group who trained with the three sensory modalities have better performance than that of the other two groups, and rescue breathing is incorporated in the CPR training simulator for better skill training.
Abstract: The hypothesis of this study is to verify the sensory dominance with the combinations of three sensory modalities (Audio-Haptics (AH), Visual-Haptics (VH), Audio-Visual-Haptics (AVH)) using Virtual Reality (VR) based Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) simulator. To test this hypothesis three experiments with three different groups of participants were conducted with the above three modes of combinations. Finally, three groups were tested for their CPR performance on an unknown linear chest stiffness of mannequin-based CPR simulator and their performance score was compared. The % mean and standard deviation of the performance score (p-value: 0.00006) in the testing phase for group A-AH, B-VH, and C-AVH is $77.95\%\pm 8.27\%, 89.47\%\pm 6.19\%, \ \text{and} \ 91.73\%\pm 3.14\%$ respectively. The results show that the group who trained with the three sensory modalities have better performance than that of the other two groups. Our future work is to incorporate rescue breathing in the CPR training simulator for better skill training.
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...Participants were trained for three days in the VR-based simulation with six different linear chest compliance and then tested for their CPR performance on an unknown linear chest stiffness of a mannequin based CPR simulator [5] as shown in Fig....
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