The Friends of St John Ambulance Isle of Man have presented two important pieces of equipment to the charity they support.
Ambu Airway Man, a high-tech training manikin, will give advanced first aiders practice managing a patient’s airway while delivering CPR.
The model, which can be connected to a computer for analysis, cost the Friends ?1,800 and was handed over to the charity on Monday.
Martin Blackburn, Director of Operations with SJA IoM, said the charity’s existing manikins didn’t allow life-savers to practice both CPR and airway preservation at the same time.
‘This is a superb addition to our training as some of our current range of resuscitation mannequins will allow us to do CPR but will not accept I-gels, and laryngoscopic masks (or even endo tracheal tubes for our health care professionals). To practice these skills they have to use our airway management manikins, which is simply a head and lungs model with no facility for chest compressions,’ he said.
‘Ambu Airway Man is a highly developed instruction and training manikin that provides a remarkably lifelike representation of the human anatomy, particularly those features important to training in modern resuscitation.’
The Friends also handed over a wheelchair, which will enable St John Ambulance’s first aiders to move poorly patients at a large events like Tynwald Day.
The total value of the donation was ?2,500.
The Friends are a small group of supporters who raise money to provide equipment for the charity. Their latest donations resulted from events including the Hidden Gardens of Port Erin and a Swing into Summer evening at Lorne House, Castletown.
Forthcoming events include an antiques sale at Port Erin railway station on November 23rd and 24th and Hidden Gardens of Port St Mary and a Grand Antiques and Collectors’ Fair in the village on 21st and 22nd June 2014.
For further information about St John Ambulance Isle of Man or to find out how to sign up for first aid courses, volunteer or support its work via donations, please ring 01624 674387.
Pictured at Monday’s handover are Steve Crowe, Ambulance Clinical Manager with the Ambulance and Paramedic Service, and St John Ambulance’s Lynn Taggart, with Friends, from left Pamela Tomlinson (seated), Pamela Crowe and Susan Temple (Margaret Dootson, another leading fundraiser, was unable to attend).
