Questions about VR ACLS training

CodeBlue is a virtual reality ACLS simulator. You are the team leader in a resuscitation room. You give spoken orders to an AI team of four, the patient responds to what the team does, and you get an evidence-based debrief at the end of each case.

Anyone who may lead or run a code: residents and physicians, emergency and critical care nurses, paramedics and ACLS students. We built it with simulation centers, hospitals, medical and nursing schools, residency programs and resuscitation committees in mind.

No. CodeBlue does not issue a provider card and it is not affiliated with or endorsed by the American Heart Association. Use it to practice team leadership between courses, to prepare for a megacode or to add realistic mock codes to your program.

No. Hands-on CPR skills need a manikin with real-time feedback, and VR controllers cannot measure compression depth. In CodeBlue you lead the person who does the compressions: you start CPR, keep pauses short, call for rotations and coordinate shocks.

A standalone VR headset and a reliable Wi-Fi connection for the voice features. You do not need a PC or cables, and you can play seated or standing. Tell us which headsets your institution uses, and we will confirm support for them.

Voice is the main way to lead the team, because that is how real codes work. If you cannot speak, for example in a noisy room, controller menus give you the same orders.

Speech recognition turns your words into text, and a language model turns the text into a structured order. Clinical rules then check that order before anything happens. If an order is unclear, a team member asks you to clarify. The AI never changes the patient's condition or your score. The simulation and the rubric do that.

A rubric covers recognition and reassessment, treatment choice and sequence, timing, team leadership and communication, and stabilization and handoff. Each finding links to the moment it happened. Decisions are judged on the information you had at that time, and system delays are reported separately from yours.

The pilot starts with a complete adult shockable cardiac arrest, from handover to ROSC and handoff. Nonshockable arrest, respiratory arrest, bradycardia, tachycardia and post-arrest care come next, then acute coronary syndromes, stroke and reversible causes. Pediatric resuscitation is a separate curriculum and is not part of the first releases.

Every scenario is a versioned content pack built on the 2025 adult resuscitation guidelines. A clinical lead and an independent reviewer sign off each pack before learners see it, and each rule links to its source. When guidelines change, we publish a new version and older sessions keep their original version.

All patients are synthetic, so no patient health information enters CodeBlue. Learners sign in through their institution. We send AI providers only the data they need to understand an order, and every session shows whether it is recorded.

Yes. The instructor console lets you assign cases, watch sessions live, pause, add an approved complication, annotate the timeline and review results by objective across attempts.

CodeBlue launches in English. The platform supports more languages, and we add them based on what our partner institutions need.

We are working with a small group of pilot partners before general release. Request early access and tell us about your program. We will talk through your learners, your goals and your headsets, and plan a pilot with you.