Which CPR Manikin should I choose?

When it comes to learning life-saving first aid techniques, practical training is highly important as it allows the user to be able to transfer these skills confidently to a real-life situation. One of the ways in which this style of training can be conducted is by utilising manikins that have been designed to be as realistic as possible.

As well as manikins that help users learn how to successfully administrate CPR, we also have a range of manikins that can help users know how to use an AED and what steps to take if someone is choking or needs airway management. To help you choose a manikin from Risk Assessment Products that is suited to your needs, a description of each can be found below.

CPR Manikins
CPR is a procedure that can help save lives, it entails providing both rescue breaths and chest compressions to those who are suffering from cardiac arrest. Together these actions help circulate the much-needed oxygenated blood around a body.

A CPR manikin helps the user get a feel for the depth and speed that CPR should be administrated as well as when rescue breaths are needed and how to perform them. Being a crucial part of CPR training, here at Risk Assessment Products, we only supply the best manikins that the industry has to offer, which includes brands such as Brayden, Prestan and Laerdal.

• Brayden manikins provide a learning experience like no other brand on the market. Included within their range is the Illumination LED Light Manikin, which includes a number of lights that highlight to the user if the depth and speed of chest compressions are correct.

• Prestan manikins feature a revolutionary CPR Rate Monitor with a 'depth' clicker which allows for instant feedback to both instructor and student regarding the rate and depth of chest compression.

• Laerdal manikins allow users to provide rescue breaths and chest to both adults and children. They allow the differences between the two to be experienced and administrated through realistic training.

Choking Manikins
When someone is choking they need immediate attention, as it means that they have an obstruction in their airways and are unable to breathe. To clear the airways back blows or abdominal thrusts can be used, but which is used and where the hands are placed, depends on where the object is stuck and the age of the patient.

Choking manikins are designed so that an object can be placed within their airways so that a student can learn how to detect where the object is stuck. From this, they can then be taught which manoeuvre is needed, where hands should be placed and how much pressure is needed to remove an object.

To ensure all ages and sizes are covered when training, our range of Simulaids choking manikins offer infant, child, adolescent, adult and obese choking manikins. These are all life-sized allowing the trainee to gauge what treatment is needed for different patients and then feel confident enough to apply this knowledge to a real-life situation.

AED Training Manikins
When a person is suffering from sudden cardiac arrest, AEDs can help provide the patient with the shock the heart needs to stop fibrillation. Combined with CPR, an AED can help increase the suffers chances of survival as they have been designed to be stored in public places and utilised by anyone.

AED training manikins combined with training AEDs, help users understand the correct way to utilise a defibrillator, so that if a real-life situation occurs, they can confidently locate and use the technology.

ACTAR Manikins helps teach users how to give CPR, experience the realistic airway opening when providing the chin lift, how to use an AED, where to place electrode pads and the process that they will need to follow.

If you need any advice on our professional range of manikins or have any questions, please send our team an email at sales@risk-assessment-products.co.uk.