UCAM creates a CPR training in hypothermia scenario using virtual reality
Members of the New Technologies in Health Research Group made the recordings in Andorra with the collaboration of staff from the Nostra Senyora de Meritxell hospital
The Ambulancia del Deseo España (Ambulance Wish Spain) Foundation recognises the social patronage of José Luis Mendoza
It posthumously awarded the 'Kees Veldboer' award to the UCAM founder
Manuel Pardo: ‘We must not forget the thousands of families who have endured the devastation of the earthquake’
The vice-dean of UCAM, who has been working in Türkiye in rescue efforts with the association Bomberos Unidos Sin Fronteras (BUSF) for a week, was received at the Campus de Los Jerónimos by María Dolores García, president of Universidad Católica de Murcia
The Mapfre Foundation finances a UCAM project to train schoolchildren in cardiopulmonary resuscitation
The team of researchers led by Manuel Pardo will determine the effectiveness of 'gamification' in the classroom in order to select tools and methodologies to raise awareness and train to save lives
UCAM provides society with interactive resources for learning CPR
Its new website, rcp.ucam.edu, is continually updated and provides information and in-house material, adapted to all ages.
Murcian solidarity in the heart of Africa
The Universidad Católica de Murcia has supported, financially and by providing medical teaching staff, the humanitarian expedition organised by WorldProject NGO to treat the sick, train medical staff and equip a clinic and an ambulance in Uganda.
UCAM sends health professionals and equipment to Uganda
UCAM does so through the NGO Worldproject, which has organised a new expedition to Uganda made up of eight members, three of whom are professors from the Universidad Católica de Murcia, an institution that has helped finance the construction and equipment of a new clinic that will offer free healthcare to the Kikaaya area inhabitants.
UCAM has developed an application to teach cardiopulmonary resuscitation at schools
Under the direction of researchers Manuel Pardo (Health Sciences) and Rafael Melendreras (Telecommunications), in her theses, Miriam Mendoza has designed a video game to facilitate the learning of this technique in children
UCAM trains 200 of its football technicians in CPR
Coaches and instructors learn first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation with an innovative method that uses virtual reality. This initiative is led by Manuel Pardo, head researcher of the New Technologies for Health Group ("Grupo de Nuevas Tecnologías para la Salud") at the Universidad Católica.