Remote Support and Education System for Trauma Treatment at Disaster Sites

This study proposes a dual-purpose system for remote medical support during disasters and trauma treatment education, aiming to enhance procedural guidance and training effectiveness in resource-limited and high-risk environments. The system consists of a remote support system for trauma treatment and a medical education system for trauma training. The remote support system enables trauma experts at distant locations to interact with a 3D digital twin of disaster victims and their surroundings within a virtual reality environment, thereby providing procedural guidance to on-site medical personnel. The system uses widely available devices such as smartphones for 3D scanning and head-mounted displays for immersive visualization. This design enables rapid deployment at disaster sites without requiring specialized equipment or complex setup procedures. The trauma education system records expert surgical treatments using motion-capture technology and reconstructs them as interactive 3D avatars, allowing trainees to observe and learn techniques from multiple perspectives. The remote support system was evaluated through fingertip-based interaction tasks in a simulated disaster scenario, where the alignment accuracy was assessed using augmented reality overlays, resulting in a measured average error of 27.0 mm. Similarly, the trauma education system was evaluated for positional accuracy in instrument handling tasks. These results confirm the feasibility and practicality of the proposed system and demonstrate its potential to improve both emergency medical response and surgical education.