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Simulation Technologies Supporting Collaborative Training for Emergency Medical Services Personnel

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Innovation in Medicine and Healthcare 2017 (KES-InMed 2018 2017)

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Training collaboration and work in various contexts in the health sector may be supported by different technologies. Based on a practical study involving Swedish emergency medical services personnel and different simulator technologies, this paper exemplifies the benefit of using processes, narratives, simulations and serious games to design contextual training scenarios for activities that are not currently utilized. The aim is to illustrate resources needed, in terms of technologies, methods, expertise and time for planning and performing high-value contextual training. The results argue for the benefits of using technologies aligned by processes and applications defined by using narratives and serious games. While processes help to define a more efficient and effective training methodology; narratives and serious games are beneficial for designing scenarios to increase the learners experience. This knowledge is necessary for planning simulation rich scenarios for prehospital training.

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Advanced paramedic Ricky Ellis (Dublin, Ireland) proofread the manuscript and provided valuable suggestions.

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  1. Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway

    Ilona Heldal

  2. Centre for Prehospital Research, University of Borås, Borås, Sweden

    Lars Lundberg

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  1. College of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Shiga, Japan

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  2. Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Shiga, Japan

    Satoshi Tanaka

  3. KES International, Bournemouth University, Poole, Dorset, United Kingdom

    Robert J. Howlett

  4. University of Canberra, Canberra, Aust Capital Terr, Australia

    Lakhmi C. Jain

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Heldal, I., Lundberg, L. (2018). Simulation Technologies Supporting Collaborative Training for Emergency Medical Services Personnel. In: Chen, YW., Tanaka, S., Howlett, R., Jain, L. (eds) Innovation in Medicine and Healthcare 2017. KES-InMed 2018 2017. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 71. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59397-5_12

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