A virtual reality medical training tool is being developed to save help children’s lives.
Nearly a million children die each year from injuries sustained in accidents, according to the World Health Organization.
Acquiring the right skills to treat kids who’ve suffered a traumatic injury can be expensive and time-consuming. PeTIT VR, a new virtual reality tool developed at McGill University aims to reduce those costs and hopefully save more lives.
Using real-life situations, PeTIT VR creates an immersive environment for surgical teams that may not see pediatric trauma very often.
When every minute counts and emotions are running high, training has proven to be the highest predictor of success. The ability to greatly increase accessibility to this type of experience is a true technological advantage that virtual reality provides.
Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/pediatric-trauma-vr-1.7138336
