Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is a lifesaving emergency procedure. To increase survival rates, it is recommended to increase the number of high school students who know how to perform CPR. We have developed an immersive “Virtual Reality (VR) Resuscitation Training” to train the theoretical knowledge of CPR in which trainees must save the life of the patient in a virtual environment. This paper presents a randomized controlled study with a pre‐posttest design to explore whether a VR enhanced curriculum improves high school students’ theoretical CPR knowledge. Forty students without previous CPR experience in the past year were randomly assigned to either the VR group or the standard group. The VR group had a significant higher increase of correct answers in comparison with the Standard group. More importantly, the gain in score on taking the correct sequence of CPR steps was significant favouring the VR‐enhanced protocol over the Standard protocol. Therefore, the use of a VR training for CPR training appears to be an effective learning method for non‐medical students and may be of great value skilling high school students in becoming adequate CPR providers.

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使用沉浸式360度虚拟现实环境对高中生进行心肺复苏培训

心肺复苏（CPR）是一种救生急救程序。为了提高生存率，建议增加知道如何执行心肺复苏术的高中学生人数。我们已经开发了一种身临其境的“虚拟现实（VR）复苏培训”，以训练CPR的理论知识，其中学员必须在虚拟环境中挽救患者的生命。本文提出了一项具有前测后设计的随机对照研究，以探讨VR增强课程是否可以提高高中学生的理论CPR知识。在过去的一年中，有40名没有心肺复苏术经验的学生被随机分配到VR组或标准组。与标准组相比，VR组的正确答案显着增加。更重要的是，与标准协议相比，采用VR增强协议对正确的CPR步骤顺序进行评分显着提高。因此，将VR培训用于CPR培训似乎是非医学学生的一种有效学习方法，对于高中生成为合适的CPR提供者来说可能具有很大的价值。