System For Trauma Assessment Training (STAT)

ABSTRACT: Training for primary and secondary trauma assessment is vital to DoD medical personnel; it is the first step to saving the lives of wounded Warfighters. Synthetic task environments are needed to bridge gaps in the training and practice of these skills. In addition to the synthetic environments themselves, we also need to support creating and editing scenarios for the environments, recording performance and simulation data, and interoperating with external simulations. To address these needs we propose to design and evaluate a System for Trauma Assessment Training (STAT), a medium-fidelity scenario-based trauma assessment training system featuring a scenario editor, multi-modal training, and a data recording and interchange system to provide efficient and effective learning, practice, and assessment of primary and secondary trauma assessment skills. These capabilities will enable STAT to bridge the gap between classroom and high-fidelity simulations. BENEFIT: Training primary and secondary trauma assessment skills is vital to DoD medical personnel and their patients. We expect System for Trauma Assessment Training (STAT) to successfully train and rehearse these critical skills to improve the quality, effectiveness, and efficiency of training while reducing the overhead. In addition to helping military personnel, training can benefit other government agencies, such as the Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and other first responders in all sectors of government. STAT technologies have applications in the commercial medical training industry, hospitals, emergency medicine training, and paramedic training.