Mass-casualty incidents with a large number of injured persons caused by human-made or by natural disasters are increasing globally. In such situations, medical first responders (MFRs) need to perform diagnosis, basic life support, or other first aid to help stabilize victims and keep them alive to wait for the arrival of further support. Situational awareness and effective coping with acute stressors is essential to enable first responders to take appropriate action that saves lives. Virtual Reality (VR) has been demonstrated in several domains to be a serious alternative, and in some areas also a significant improvement to conventional learning and training. Especially for the challenges in the training of MFRs, it can be highly useful for practicing and learning domains where the context of the training is not easily available. VR training offers controlled, easy-to-create environments that can be created and trained repeatedly under the same conditions. As an advanced alternative to VR, Mixed Reality (MR) environments have the potential to augment current VR training by providing a dynamic simulation of an environment and hands-on practice on injured victims. Building on this interpretation of MR, the main aim of MED1stMR is to develop a new generation of MR training with haptic feedback for enhanced realism. in this workshop paper, we will present the vision of the project and suggest questions for discussion.

翻译：由人为或自然灾害导致的大规模伤亡事件在全球范围内呈上升趋势。在此类情境中，医疗急救人员需执行诊断、基础生命支持或其他急救措施，以稳定伤员状况并维持其生命直至后续救援抵达。态势感知能力及有效应对急性应激源的能力，是急救人员采取适当行动拯救生命的关键。虚拟现实技术在多个领域已被证明是传统学习与培训的重要替代方案，在某些领域甚至实现了显著改进。尤其针对医疗急救人员培训中的挑战，该技术在处理难以获取训练背景的实践与学习领域极具价值。虚拟现实培训可提供可控、易于构建的环境，并在相同条件下重复进行训练。作为虚拟现实技术的进阶替代方案，混合现实环境通过动态模拟场景及对伤员的实操训练，有望增强现有虚拟现实培训效果。基于对混合现实的这一诠释，MED1stMR项目的主要目标是开发新一代带触觉反馈的混合现实培训系统，以提升真实感。在本研讨会论文中，我们将阐述项目愿景并提出供讨论的问题。