Relive: a serious game to learn how to save lives.

A recent review has provided evidence in support of new nd alternative methods for CPR training.1 Among these, are he “serious games”, which are applications developed using omputer game technologies more often associated with enterainment, but characterized by a serious purpose. Indeed, during he last decade, many serious games have been developed and sed successfully in the field of health, including training of oth technical and non-technical skills relevant to the surgical rea.2 The Italian Resuscitation Council (IRC) has implemented a erious game for the Viva! Campaign 20133 called Viva! Game http://www.viva2013.it/viva-game). Viva! Game is a serious game irected to kids and young adults. It served as a tool to create wareness on cardiac arrest and cardiopulmonary resuscitation CPR) in a soft and enjoyable way. The game has different scenaros, i.e. school, home, stadium, through which the player needs to nteract. More specifically, during the development of the story, he player finds himself in the need to perform a high quality hest compression to save another character from cardiac arrest. iva! CPR (http://www.viva2013.it/vivacpr) is an application for eal time feedback on chest compression quality created for smarthones directed to general population to increase awareness and nowledge about chest compression only manoeuvres. The numer of downloads of Viva! Game and Viva! CPR during the Viva! ampaign 2013 was around 10,000 (Table 1). For the Viva! Camaign 2014, the Italian Resuscitation Council developed a new and ore ambitious project called “Relive” game. Relive is a serious ame focusing on CPR with the main purpose of increasing kids nd young adults’ awareness on CPR and prompting them to attend PR classes and be prepared to intervene in case of cardiac arrest. elive is a first person 3D adventure taking place on planet Mars, n a near future. The game is divided into two different playing odes: a tournament mode and a story mode. The tournament ode is a ready-to-play simulated emergency scene, taken from elected game scenes, where the player faces different rescue sit-