Entrenador eficaz para el desfibrilador-monitor bifásico CARDIODEF 2.

CARDIOTRAINER is a multimedia intended for the interactive training of medical and paramedical personnel of urgency systems or any other ones using the biphasic defibrillator-monitor CARDIODEF® 2. The trainer allows the trainee to get acquainted with its main characteristics and its operation procedure. It also includes the safety measures to be applied and the necessary procedures to assist a patient with mortal arrhythmias as ventricular fibrillation or with non-immediately mortal ones. Making use of modern multimedia development tools several drills have been implemented, where the trainee must cardiovert or defibrillate a patient, such as it should be done in a real-life case. Drills can be repeated as many times as required in male or female adult patients or in pediatric patients. In the paper the possibilities of the trainer are illustrated using some of the main screens presented to the trainee, and the application results are presented and discussed. It is concluded that CARDIOTRAINER is a valuable training tool for increase the understanding, proficiency and skill of personnel using CARDIODEF® 2. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]