Automatic patient deterioration and recovery
For pulseless/arrest rhythms (like VFib or Asystole), let vitals automatically get worse over time — SpO₂, EtCO₂, and BP falling — instead of staying wherever they were last set. Then, when the instructor delivers a successful shock or achieves effective pacing capture, have those vitals automatically recover, including EtCO₂ climbing back up to simulate return of a pulse.
This makes arrest scenarios feel alive instead of static: a student who delays treatment sees the real consequence (falling numbers) without the instructor manually adjusting sliders every few seconds, and a correct intervention is visibly rewarded with improvement.
This needs careful clinical input on the actual decay/recovery rates before it ships — getting them wrong (e.g. recovering too fast) could undersell the urgency of good compressions or a fast shock, which would teach the wrong lesson.
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Operations Team
Sep 26
RR now drops to zero automatically with the other vitals and stays controller-adjustable throughout for ventilation
John Tongret
Sep 24
Respiratory rate should drop to zero automatically as well instead of remaining at the set rate. It should also be adjustable by controller post the transiton phase so that the controller can adjust for mechanical ventilation during code management.
John Tongret
Sep 24
question for Dev team.
Is this the auto physiology toggle I see in the testing version ?
Operations Team
Sep 24
yes