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The project aims to move beyond fixed, developer-created scenarios by establishing a framework in which clinical cases can b e created, adapted, and shared by the wider medical education community.
The current simulation provides the foundation for this approach through interactive patient management, physio ogical modelling, clinical interventions, investigations, and visual case construction. Future development will build on this foundation by strengthening case architecture, introducing safety and validation mechanisms, supporting multiple clinical stages, and incorporating user-centred feedback and discussion.
The longer-term vision is an extensible simulation environment in which educators, clinicians, and learners can contribute clinical scenarios that can be adapted and used within a wider educational community.
A Foundation for OPEN Interactive Clinical Simulation
A Foundation for OPEN Interactive Clinical Simulation
The platform currently provides the underlying framework for developing and running interactive patient cases. Clinical findings, physiological changes, investigations, interventions, and patient progression can be brought together within a single simulation environment.
User-Defined Patient Presentation
User-Defined Patient Presentation
The user decides how the patient presents, allowing cases to be tailored to different clinical scenarios and learning objectives.
User-Defined Patient Intervention
User-Defined Patient Intervention
The users decides The correct interventions, allowing treatments to be tailored to different clinical scenarios and learning objectives.
Visual Case Construction
A node-based architecture provides a visual method for defining clinical scenarios. Cases can connect patient findings, investigations, interventions, medications, physiological effects, and progression rules to determine how a scenario develops during simulation.
Peer-to-Peer Sharing
Share your custom scenarios with a community of learners and educators.
An Open Case Ecosystem
The longer-term direction is to establish an application where clinical simulation cases are not limited to those created by the original developers. Instead, users will be able to contribute and adapt scenarios, creating a broader and continually expanding collection of interactive clinical cases.
Current Features
Manages patient cases with pathologies, interventions, and recovery parameters.
Simulates and displays a real-time ECG waveform with dynamic vital sign data.
Calculates heart rate from ECG data and provides synchronized audio/visual feedback.
Analyses vital signs to automatically calculate a National Early Warning Score (NEWS).
Applies a range of medical interventions, including fluids, antibiotics, and oxygen therapy.
Tracks a dynamic task checklist and a performance score for user actions.
User Interface and Interaction
Features a 3D medication carousel for selecting and spawning interventions.
Controls the visibility of UI elements with a single-click toggle button.
Generates and color-codes a NEWS table based on the severity of the patient's condition.
Connects the entire system by acting as a central signal hub for all interventions.
Provides an interactive viewer that displays medication and device information obtained from OpenFDA, allowing to browse, search, and reference drug data.
Patient Case Creation & Distribution
Create and customize patient cases with vital signs, pathologies, interventions, and investigation results (including images). Completed cases can saved to user accounts.
3D Heart Visualization
The simulation includes a 3D heart model that can rotate. Its beats are calculated from the real-time ECG data, reflecting the patient’s current heart rate and rhythm.
Logging and Networking 🖥️
Logs all clinical events and broadcasts them across a multi-user network.
Provides narrative feedback and logs patient milestones in real-time.
The simulation's basic logic involves a patient's vitals moving from a start value to an end value, a process driven by a deterioration rate. This foundational logic will be expanded upon to create more complex and realistic scenarios.
Basic Summary OF Simulation Case Logic 📉
Basic Summary OF Simulation Case Logic 📉
Each case is defined by a set of basic rules that control how the simulation behaves. For a simple cardiac example, the logic is as follows:
Start Values: The patient's vitals are set at their healthy baseline:
Heart Rate: 75 bpm
Respiratory Rate: 16
Blood Pressure: 120/80 mmHg
Deterioration Rate: The deterioration_rate_per_sec determines how fast the patient's condition worsens. For example, a rate of 0.01 means the condition worsens by 1% every second.
End Values: The vitals move toward specific unhealthy end values defined in the case. For this example, vitals would change toward:
Heart Rate: 140 bpm
Blood Pressure: 80/50 mmHg
Reversing Deterioration: Applying the correct interventions (e.g., a beta-blocker) changes the logic. This stops the decline and causes the vitals to move back toward their original healthy start values.
This basic model provides the framework for all cases; it will be built upon by adding more variables, rules, and outcomes to make the simulation more realistic and challenging.
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