title: Using Virtual World Training to Increase Situation Awareness during Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation.
abstract: Situation awareness (SA) is a critical non-technical skill which affects outcome during emergency medical endeavors. Using a modified self-report instrument a significant increase of SA was found during multiplayer virtual world CPR team training among 12 medical students. Further a correlation between SA and attention was noted. Being a vital factor during the process of video-game play, we argue that this skill is suitably practiced using this training method.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology.
authors.forename: Johan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Creutzfeldt
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology.
authors.forename: Leif
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hedman
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology.
authors.forename: Li
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Felländer-Tsai
mesh_terms: D001364:Awareness; D016887:Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation / Q000193:education*; D003198:Computer Simulation; D004501:Education, Medical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D058687:Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest / Q000628:therapy; D014584:User-Computer Interface