Reviewed by Clare Marlin, MS, BSN, CIC, Shirley Ryan AbilityLab
Using a multimodal educational virtual platform, Surgical XR AI-PPE (SXR AI-PPE), composed of artificial intelligence (AI) and computer vision to view participants’ personal protective equipment (PPE) donning and doffing skills, researchers sought to assess the platform’s application to scaffold such skills and the perceived confidence of PPE use by student doctors and nurses with a prospective cohort design. Following participants’ initial completion of the platform’s guided educational program and then completion of the unguided assessment program twice at three-month intervals, the researchers identified 100% achievement with donning and doffing of PPE and an increase in participants’ confidence in their donning and doffing skills.
Reference:
Preda, V., Ong, Z., Wijeweera, C., Carney, T., Clay-Williams, R., Kankanamge, D., Preda, T., Kopsidas, I., & Wilson, M. K. (2025). Artificial Intelligence (AI) use for personal protective equipment training, remediation, and education in health care. American Journal of Infection Control, 53, 678–684. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2025.03.020