About Crash Cart

A crash cart is the thing you pull to the bedside when it matters. It is also, if you squint, a game cart. This is an arcade where every cabinet teaches something real.

Why this exists

There is no shortage of clinical education software. There is a shortage of clinical education that is actually fun to open. The good simulators cost thousands of dollars and live in a sim lab. The free tools are quizzes. The polished games for clinicians are phone apps funded by pharmaceutical marketing. And some of the skills that matter most, reading a ventilator or running a code, have never been made into a game by anyone at all.

How it is built

Each game is its own project, with its own research and its own design. That is deliberate. A rhythm game and a ward-management sim should not feel like the same game with different questions poured in, and the evidence agrees: reward layers added on top of unchanged material reliably raise engagement without improving learning. If the fun does not live in the mechanic, it is decoration.

What every game does share is a floor. It has to be keyboard-playable and accessible, and it has to be able to explain and cite every single thing it asks you. Read the content standards for what that means in practice.

Who it is for

Medical students, residents, nurses, respiratory therapists, and paramedics. Free, in a browser, without an account, because the tools that gate themselves behind an NPI number or an institutional license leave out most of the people who do this work.