TITAN: Targeted Immersive Training at NHS Nightingale

应急准备培训对于成功应对新冠肺炎这样的大流行至关重要。NHS Nightingale London向大规模医疗保健相关培训提出了新的挑战。与医疗行业不同的是，它在短时间内将来自广泛医学学科的专业人士聚集在一起，实现了一个单一的目标。O2竞技场创造了一个夜莺的复制品来满足这些训练需求。驻扎在南丁格尔的教育人员旨在培训劳动力掌握针对CoVID的特定能力。不可否认，紧急情况的速度和不可预测性意味着通过培训可以支持的程序的质量、现实性和范围是有限的。虚拟现实(VR)技术可移植、设置快速且易于修改，可以在紧急情况下提供独特的培训机会，但VR尚未出现在英国对新冠肺炎培训的任何回应中。虽然它在临床教育中已经使用了10多年，但到目前为止，它的使用都是定制的。我们正在与来自NHS NHS Nightingale London、国王学院医院和伦敦国王学院的团队合作，设计和构建一个模块(软件和硬件)平台，以便在紧急情况下快速部署有针对性的培训干预措施。我们将利用紧急培训需求为工具和要求的设计提供信息，同时我们实施精心选择的培训场景，以补充现有培训，减少员工和消耗品负担。强调的一个主要领域是需要解决个人防护装备(PPE)短缺的问题，通过在培训中使用个人防护装备(PPE)。整个项目的雄心是，最终，使用我们的工具包创建3D培训场景在技术能力和时间上应该与创建PowerPoint 2D培训材料相同。同样，部署应该简单、可扩展，并满足所有必要的健康和安全要求(例如，传染病控制和净化)。虽然我们将首先关注NHS夜莺的需求，新冠肺炎的影响(以及其他传染病)很可能在未来许多年里继续对全球产生影响。我们的愿景是利用这个项目的成果和我们通过与NHS南丁格尔团队合作所学到的知识，创建一个可快速部署和定制的VR培训解决方案，该解决方案可以在需要进行培训的地方进行现场培训。因此，在尼日利亚拉沙热暴发期间或冲突地区的野战医院中，能够向缺乏经验的志愿者提供支持。**延长影响期限**延长期限提供的额外资金和时间将使我们能够使该项目进一步商业化。我们将能够：*在不同的NHS信托机构进行第二次试点，以展示更广泛的适用性并收集更多数据/反馈*通过有针对性的营销活动积极探索广告/赞助模式，使培训在使用时免费*建立我们的业务计划和供应链战略*继续与KCH/KCL的团队合作，以确保产品有最大机会成功发布

Emergency preparedness training is fundamental to success in a pandemic such as COVID-19. The NHS Nightingale London provides a fresh challenge to large-scale healthcare-related training. Unusually to healthcare, it has brought together professionals from wide ranging medical disciplines in a short period of time for a singular purpose. A replica of the Nightingale was created at the O2 Arena to address these training needs. Educators stationed at the Nightingale aim to train the workforce in COVID-specific competencies.Inevitably, the speed and unpredictable nature of an emergency means the quality, realism and range of procedures that can be supported through training is limited.Virtual Reality (VR) technologies which are portable, setup quickly and easily modifiable could provide unique training opportunities in emergency situations, yet VR has not featured in any UK response to COVID-19 training. Although it has been used in clinical education for over 10 years, uses thus far are bespoke.We are working with teams from NHS Nightingale London, King's College Hospital and King's College London to design and build a modular (software and hardware) platform for the rapid deployment of targeted training interventions in emergency situations.We will use the emergency need for training to inform the design of tools and requirements as we implement carefully selected training scenarios to complement existing training, reducing staff and consumable burden. A major area of which has been highlighted is the need for solutions to the Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) shortage, which is amplified through its use in training.The overall project ambition is that, eventually, creating a 3D training scenario using our toolkit should be equivalent in technical competency and time to creating PowerPoint 2D training materials.Equally, deployment should be simple, scalable and meet all necessary health and safety requirements (e.g. contagion control and decontamination).While we will focus on the needs of NHS Nightingale in the first instance, the effects of COVID-19 (along with other infectious diseases) will likely continue to have a worldwide impact for many years to come. Our vision is to use the outputs of this project and our learning through working with the NHS Nightingale team to create a rapidly deployable and customisable VR training solution that can be put in "on the ground" right where training needs to take place. Thereby enabling the support of e.g. inexperienced volunteers during a Lassa Fever outbreak in Nigeria or a field hospital in a conflict zone.**Extension for Impact**The additional funding and time provided by the extension will allow us to take this project significantly further towards commercialisation. We will be able to:* Run a second pilot at a different NHS trust to demonstrate wider applicability and gather more data/feedback * Actively explore an advertising/sponsorship model through a targeted marketing activity to make training free at point of use* Build out our business plan and supply chain strategy* Continue our collaboration with teams at KCH/KCL to ensure the product has the maximum chance of a successful launch