![Photo of the team that carried out the simulation to recreate a hypothermic CPR situation in VR](/sites/ucam.edu.en/files/styles/buscador_noticias/public/imagenes/noticias/2024-04/ucam-rcp-andorra-web.jpeg?h=6cd83c45&itok=OLzEqtpe)
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](/sites/ucam.edu.en/files/styles/buscador_noticias/public/imagenes/noticias/2023-06/premio-ambulancia-del-deseo-web.jpg?h=5dabf909&itok=eSElna0c)
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’](/sites/ucam.edu.en/files/styles/buscador_noticias/public/imagenes/noticias/2023-02/manuel-pardo-ucam-01-1.jpg?h=5dabf909&itok=V-cBaDzX)
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](/sites/ucam.edu.en/files/styles/buscador_noticias/public/imagenes/noticias/2023-01/manuel-pardo-con-las-gafas-de-realidad-virtual-con-el-video-360-.jpg?h=99d606c9&itok=2vgHvVmm)
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
![Manuel Pardo, UCAM professor and principal investigator of the University's 'New Technologies for Health' Group, at HiTech, with the virtual reality goggles, watching a 360º video.](/sites/ucam.edu.en/files/styles/buscador_noticias/public/imagenes/noticias/2022-10/manuel-pardo-con-las-gafas-de-realidad-virtual-con-el-video-360web1.jpg?h=6cd83c45&itok=PjF72lWq)
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.
![Jerónimo Lajara, dean of the UCAM School of Medicine (in the center), receives some of the members of the University who participated in the Uganda mission.](/sites/ucam.edu.en/files/styles/buscador_noticias/public/imagenes/noticias/2022-09/ucam-uganda-2022-septiembre-web.jpg?h=6cd83c45&itok=y_Lo3Ilx)
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 members who are part of the expedition that will be working in Uganda for the next two weeks.](/sites/ucam.edu.en/files/styles/buscador_noticias/public/imagenes/noticias/2022-09/expedicion-ucam-uganda.jpg?h=6cd83c45&itok=uNn_a5p6)
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.
![Eye tracking device test for Miriam Mendoza's thesis](/sites/ucam.edu.en/files/styles/buscador_noticias/public/imagenes/noticias/2022-02/prueba-tesis-rcp-1-web.jpg?h=6cd83c45&itok=8BaQsq1K)
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
![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.](/sites/ucam.edu.en/files/styles/buscador_noticias/public/imagenes/noticias/2021-11/imagen-adaptada-noticias-web_3.jpg?h=84589e9c&itok=BwPe9Psu)
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.