title: An interactive multimedia training system for advanced cardiac life support.
abstract: This paper describes an Advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) training system (ACLSYS) with multimedia and hypertext features for training medical personnel and evaluating their performance during ACLS events. ACLSYS runs in a Windows 95 environment and is written in Visual Basic 4.0 Enterprise Edition and Access 7.0. The system consists of two primary modules: a multimedia training module and a simulation/evaluation module. The training module provides the knowledge and skills required for the appropriate early treatment of cardiopulmonary arrest. The simulation/evaluation module generates randomly an unlimited number of ACLS cases. These cases become part of the training case database and are available for retraining. ACLS certified personnel were included in the validation of the system.
authors.affiliation: Department of Industrial Engineering, Cullen College of Engineering, University of Houston, TX 77204, USA. zxie@bayou.uh.edu
authors.forename: Z Z
authors.initials: ZZ
authors.lastname: Xie
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: R W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Scamell
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Gonzalez
mesh_terms: D016887:Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation / Q000193:education*; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction; D006801:Humans; D019146:Hypermedia