Abstract
<b>Introduction:</b> During the COVID-19 pandemic, alternatives to face-to-face teaching were on the urge. What9s more, in the context of the respiratory support of COVID patients, the training and capacitation of personnel capable of taking care of these patients was critical. <b>Aims and objectives:</b> Develop a Virtual Reality (VR) app for remote training of medical staff in the management of different acute respiratory diseases, including COVID-19. <b>Methods:</b> Pulmonologists and software developers designed an app based on a virtual hospital using VR glasses. The teacher programs different clinical scenarios, where the student can converse with the patient and explore him, observing the respiratory mechanics and the skin coloration, auscultating different noises in various cardiac and pulmonary foci, edema in the lower extremities, etc. The student can request different tests (blood analysis, radiography, etc.) and prescribe treatment, including oxygen therapy and respiratory support. The clinical situation of the patient can change during the simulation. <b>Results:</b> Different acute respiratory diseases were successfully simulated, with a correct interaction between the student and the teacher. <b>Conclusions:</b> VR can be used as a tool for the remote training of medical staff, and provide high fidelity simulations for training in a wide variety of clinical situations. FIG: (Left) Clinician and student using the tool (Right) Student point of view.
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