CPR Competition System

Abstract

A computer-implemented method for managing rescue training includes registering a plurality of individuals as potential rescue trainees through a central computer server system, receiving from computing devices that are remote from the central server system information indicative of rate and depth of compression for ones of the potential rescue trainees, and generating comparative data that reflects performance of CPR chest compressions for a first rescue trainee against other rescue trainees. The method also includes providing the comparative data over a network for review by one or more of the rescue trainees.

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TECHNICAL FIELDThis document relates to computer-based systems and techniques for providing competitions between individuals and / or teams in the performance of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).BACKGROUNDSudden cardiac arrest (colloquially “heart attack”) is a regular killer. The best treatment for cardiac arrest is quick and competent chest compressions to keep blood flowing through a victim's heart. Generally, every minute of delay in treating a cardiac arrest victim lowers the chance of survival by about ten percent. As a result, provision of CPR by people who are near the victim when the cardiac arrest begins, and until more advanced life support personnel can arrive, is crucial to survival rates for cardiac arrest.Recognizing that critical CPR can come from lay people at the site of a cardiac arrest even more than from professional responders who may take many minutes to arrive, various organizations have promoted CPR training for lay people for decades. Such training may occ...

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Benefits of technology

This document describes technologies that involve systems and techniques that may be used to make CPR training and related lifesaving training more interesting to students, and to thereby increase the quality of the training and the number of people who want to be trained in CPR. Such techniques may also increase the amount of training and practice by each student, and may cause students to stay up-to-date in their CPR skills.

As described here, interested individuals who own computing devices that contain accelerometers of sufficient sensitivity may obtain one or more computer applications that provide CPR training and testing. The applications may be run on the computing devices and may report results of the testing to a central facility that tracks results for a large number of trainees. The central facility may coordinate training campaigns for users, by which the users are drilled in a variety of different ways and settings, so as to test their ability to perform CPR effectively and also to make the CPR training process more entertaining. For example, the CPR training may be integrated as a central component of a broader role player game, such as by a player choosing to be an army medic in a first-person shooter style war or disaster simulation game, where the player can choose to attend to injured players or avatars. Data on the player's CPR and other life-saving performances may be gathered from such games, so as to obtain indication of how the player performs under pressure and in the context of a real emergency situation. In addition, the player is much more likely to practice the CPR if it is part of a more general game that they enjoy, rather than part of a standalone, fixed game that only involves performance of CPR.

Problems solved by technology

Such techniques may also increase the amount of training and practice by each student, and may cause students to stay up-to-date in their CPR skills.

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