SIMULATION OF NEW-BORNS BEHAVIOURS DURING CARDIO-PULMONARY RESUSCITATION

International audience ; This research concerns the formulation of a methodology and its application to elaborate conceptual models of pathological new-borns behaviours combined with the cardio-pulmonary resuscitation gestures. The methodology follows an experimental approach based on the analysis of academic documents, operating experience documents, and practitioner interviews. The implemented process consisted in adopting approach and methods from Cognitive Engineering in order to elaborate an ontology as a basis for the development of conceptual models of the resuscitation scenarios as well as the specification of a simulator. The process is based on the knowledge engineering method, KOD. The formalization of the conceptual models consisted in integrating the concepts into the definition of classes and objects and, by the use of a discrete event formalism. As a result, a simulator has been built to train medical practitioners to face situations, which are reported to potentially cause errors and thus improve the safety of the resuscitation gestures.