Student nurses at Southampton are helping to develop research that could save the lives of people suffering cardiac arrests.
Cutting-edge technology including SMART watches, SMART glasses and HoloLens are being used to help ensure CPR is being given effectively and correctly, even if the person giving it has no first aid experience.
The technologies are designed to enable people and healthcare professionals to enhance their resuscitation techniques. The SMART watch flashes and vibrates to demonstrate the correct rhythm CPR should be given, the SMART glass can feedback on how deep compressions should be, while HoloLens projects an augmented reality hologram giving visual and verbal instructions.
Nursing student Dominique, who took part, said:
“My resuscitation technique has improved following the use of the technology. It gives a very good indication of how quickly you need to actually do the resuscitation and the chest compressions. This type of technology isn’t something we see in everyday practice – hopefully we will see it in practice in the future.”
Dr Ellie Monger, Lecturer in Critical Care Nursing has been instrumental in developing the trials:
“To see if one of the technologies should be developed further, we need to make sure that it is useable for the lay person on the street who has no experience whatsoever.”
The trials are part of a €100,000 EU funding collaboration between the University of Southampton (Health Sciences and Electronics and Computer Science) and the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI).
To see our students in action, watch the film below:
