A ski slope, an assistance helicopter, eight cameras (four of them 360º) and professionals and researchers from UCAM and the Nostra Senyora de Meritxell Hospital were needed for the preparation of a virtual reality scenario aimed at training in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) in hypothermia. UCAM's immersive technologies laboratory (VR Lab) together with the New Technologies in Health Research Group are working on the creation of a library of experiences so that students can access different scenarios with their virtual reality glasses and train in them. 

The experience, recorded in Andorra, has several very interesting components since, by doing it in the snow, it allows working in a simulated scenario of CPR in hypothermia, conditions in which the protocol has some variations with respect to the standard one. In addition, a Heliand helicopter, which is used by the Emergency Service of the Hospital de Meritxell, also participated in this simulation, adding the transport of the patient to the hospital to the simulation. 

Manuel Pardo, vice-dean of the UCAM and principal investigator of this group, stresses that this type of experience ‘is extremely valuable for students, because they will learn in an immersive way, in different situations with ultra-realistic simulations that are being prepared following the standards of the European Resuscitation Council (ERC)".