VR-PE: Translating Front-line PPE Expertise to the Workplace Using Immersive Training

2019冠状病毒病疫情迫使许多部门提高个人防护装备和卫生等复杂领域的技能，而这些领域以前是一线医疗环境的领域。由于弱势/高风险客户、较低水平的培训/专业知识、较高的员工流动率和有限的培训资源等因素的综合作用，护理部门受到的影响尤其严重。虚拟现实（VR）（便携式、快速设置、方便、无边界的工作空间和内容）在我们应对COVID-19大流行方面发挥着独特的作用，并在由于成本、员工时间损失（派人参加课程/在集体培训期间必须覆盖多名员工）或风险（培训中不必要的社交接触）而访问受限或存在问题的情况下提供培训。基于VR的培训始终是1:1，可以根据时间表或机会出现，易于扩展，提供详细的反馈，并且从头到尾都很吸引人，不像视频可能直到最后才引起观众的兴趣。然而，在英国应对Covid-19的培训中，VR的例子有限。Titan-VR有限公司的团队最近开发了一种虚拟现实沉浸式解决方案，用于在涉及COVID-19患者的医疗环境中培训医护人员。这是与国王学院医院的专家合作开发的，使我们能够捕捉多年在一线环境中工作的经验，并将其提炼成一个互动模块，以帮助加强最佳实践，减少可能造成重大后果的小错误。该系统用于培训员工和学生，我们正准备在伦敦和英国推广。这些宝贵的经验和获得的专家知识可以应用于因COVID-19而被迫引入个人防护装备程序的几乎所有部门。我们认为，下一个最重要和最紧迫的需求是将这种个人防护装备专业知识转化为护理部门（疗养院和家庭护理）。在VR-PE项目中，我们将与国王学院医院的团队合作，设计、建造和评估一个模块化平台，用于在护理部门快速部署培训干预措施，在现实环境中测试适当的决策。

The COVID-19 outbreak has forced many sectors to up-skill in complex areas of personal protective equipment (PPE) and hygiene, previously the domain of frontline medical environments. The care sector has been particularly badly effected due to a combination of factors including vulnerable/high risk clients, lower levels of training/expertise, high staff turn-over and limited resources for training.Virtual Reality (VR) (portable, quickly setup, convenient, unbounded workspace and content) has a unique role to play in our response to the COVID-19 pandemic and provide training where access is limited or problematic due to cost, loss of staff time (sending people to courses/having to cover multiple staff during group training) or risk (unnecessary social contact in training). VR based training is always 1:1, can be fit around schedules or when the opportunity arises, is easy to scale, provides detailed feedback and is engaging from start to finish unlike a video which may not hold a viewer's interest until the end. Yet, examples of VR in any UK response to Covid-19 training is limited.The team behind Titan-VR Ltd. have recently developed a Virtual Reality immersive solution for training healthcare staff in medical settings which involve COVID-19 patients. This was developed collaboratively with experts from Kings College Hospital and has allowed us to capture many years' experience working in front-line settings and distil that into an interactive module to help reinforce best practice, reducing the small errors which can have major consequences. This system is in use training staff and students and we are preparing to roll out across London and the UK.This valuable experience and captured expert knowledge, can be applied to almost sector which has been forced to introduce PPE procedures as a result of COVID-19\. We believe the next most important and urgent need is to translate this PPE expertise into the care sector (care homes and in-home care).In the VR-PE project we will work with teams from King's College Hospital to design, build and evaluate a modular platform for the rapid deployment of training interventions in the care sector which test appropriate decision making in realistic settings.