Emergency care training manikin RLN50B

for rescue exercisesfor obesitybariatric

Obesity is a very real problem in the UK and across the world and judging by government figures and anecdotal evidence, the problem is rapidly getting worse. The need for heavyweight manikins has never been greater. All sectors as well as Fire & Rescue, Hospitals, Ambulance can experience heavier casualties. Healthcare There is a growing requirement within the healthcare sector to be prepared for plus-size patients. Often a ‘we will deal with it when we have to’ approach means that patients face a lack of dignified care and caregivers are at an even greater risk of injury through lack of experience and planning. Airlines accommodate increasingly heavy passengers – we lent an RL180 to Airbus in Broughton, UK for a multi-agency exercise and Nicole (as she was called!) brought the exercise to a standstill! It took the combined teams 15 minutes to formulate a plan of how to remove her from the training fuselage! Shipping: Cruise Ships could have many obese/bariatric passengers on board, would your staff know how to deal with passengers of these weights? Prisons: do your officers have sufficient training to be able to move prisoners weighing more than 130 Kg if an incident arose? Care Homes: not all situations will require the emergency services, could your staff manage? An obese dummy might help your staff to avoid injury through poor patient handling skills. Casualties / Victims / Patients / Clients / Staff / Passengers come in all shapes and sizes – can you safely manoeuvre a plus-size person?