Stytz M R, Garcia B W, Godsell-Stytz G M, Banks S B
Virtual Environments Laboratory, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH 45433, USA. mstytz,
Stud Health Technol Inform. 1997;39:473-85.
Because of the increasing complexity of emergency medical care, medical staffs require increasingly sophisticated training systems. Virtual environments offer a low cost means to achieve a widely usable yet sophisticated training capability. We describe the Virtual Emergency Room (VER) project, a simulation system designed to enable emergency department personnel within level I and II emergency rooms to practice emergency medical procedures and protocols. Because emergency rooms are manned by a wide variety of medical professionals, we are developing a simulation facility that uses a distributed virtual environment architecture to enable real-time, multi-participant simulations. The potential advantages of this system include the ability to evaluate and refine treatment skills, and the ability to provide scenario-specific training for mobile military field hospital teams. These advantages will ultimately improve the readiness of emergency department staffs for a wide variety of trauma situations. This paper describes the VER and the major components of its distributed virtual environment. The current capabilities of our system are described followed by a discussion of recommended follow-on work.
由于急诊医疗护理日益复杂，医护人员需要越来越复杂的培训系统。虚拟环境提供了一种低成本的方式来实现广泛可用且复杂的培训能力。我们描述了虚拟急诊室（VER）项目，这是一个模拟系统，旨在使一级和二级急诊室的急诊科人员能够练习急诊医疗程序和协议。由于急诊室由各种各样的医疗专业人员配备，我们正在开发一种模拟设施，该设施使用分布式虚拟环境架构来实现实时、多参与者模拟。该系统的潜在优势包括评估和完善治疗技能的能力，以及为移动军事野战医院团队提供特定场景培训的能力。这些优势最终将提高急诊科工作人员应对各种创伤情况的准备程度。本文描述了VER及其分布式虚拟环境的主要组件。接着介绍了我们系统的当前功能，随后讨论了建议的后续工作。
