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LIFE, a new smartphone app to train healthworkers to save lives

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The Life-saving Instruction for Emergencies (LIFE) is a 3D simulation training app for smartphones that teaches healthcare workers how to manage medical emergencies. LIFE is a scenario-based mobile and virtual reality (VR) gaming platform that teaches healthcare workers to identify and manage medical emergencies using game-like training techniques to reinforce the key steps that need to be performed in order to save lives.

A newborn baby in view on the pre-warmed resuscitaire with an adjacent trolley having several essential resuscitation equipment.

The first three scenarios available for LIFE teach healthcare workers how to resuscitate a newborn baby. After they have learned the correct life-saving steps, users are awarded a certificate of completion which can be registered with the Kenya Paediatric Association for Continuing Professional Development (CPD) credit.

The full story is available on the Oxford Tropical Medicine website

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In-game navigation task instructing the player to wrap the baby with a dry towel, one of the initial steps in newborn resuscitation. A newborn baby on the pre-warmed resuscitaire in the labour room. An example of in-game interactive text quiz with several answer options for the player to select the correct answer(s) from.
A quiz with images/objects as answer options for the player to select the correct answer(s) from. A navigation event for the player to find and turn on the resuscitaire (a place for resuscitating newborn babies), within the labour room virtual environment. Also displayed is an avatar of the health worker to attend to the baby. In-game appropriate positive feedback to the player on the correct action taken plus additional recommendation on how to continue practising the skill in real life.

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