Way back in the day, we used to pack up our cleaned CPR manikins, legs and all, into giant hard cases and drag those behemoths back to the storage room. The best you could hope for was to avoid ...

CAMBRIDGE - There's a group of students at MIT and Harvard banding together to save lives by improving CPR training. "There is very little female representation in the curriculum and so we thought we ...

CPR education has a diversity problem, and social media images of slim, white, male manikins are only compounding the issue, new research makes clear. In an analysis of Twitter and Instagram posts of ...

When it comes to CPR, you gotta get grabbed. That’s why a new product, the Womanikin, is putting boobs on CPR mannequins. They’re not just for show: The altered model aims to combat the disparity ...

The study was published in the journal Health Promotion International. Learning CPR compression techniques on manikins without breasts contributes towards women being less likely to receive ...

Despite going on numerous first aid courses, Chloe Lipton said she had never practised CPR on a female manikin A campaigner says she is calling for female manikins to be mandatory in CPR and ...

Like countless other things in our culture, the plastic dummies used to train medical professionals and others to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) are designed for men. Despite the fact ...

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It’s a sad reality that women who go into cardiac arrest are less likely to receive resuscitation from bystanders than men, and are more likely to die as a result. While researchers believe this is ...

RED CLOUD GARRISON, South Korea - First aid classes have long been taught by the American Red Cross in Warrior Country, but thanks to a donation of manikins from Omega Psi Phi Fraternity the students ...

The Johns Creek Public Safety Foundation has bought 49 additional training and practice manikins for the Johns Creek Fire Department, allowing larger classes in life-saving training. The Fire ...