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Recent research into emergency response shows that CPR can play a fundamental role in giving many victims a better chance at survival. It is now well documented that we should waste as little time as possible beginning chest compressions. We also know that not all CPR performances are equal. Good quality CPR can re-oxygenate the blood so that an AED has a better chance of having success.

SmartMan© leads the industry in providing accurate streamed data on all key parameters for every skill. If you are doing research into CPR, then there is no other system that provides you with the in depth accurate records for all required skills. As a researcher, you have access to all the information. Leading edge researchers are showing that people trained on SmartMan© do perform CPR skills better.

Best Practice CPR Training Solution
For 2010 Guidelines
2011-05-01 SmartMan's Provides Best Practice Solution

SmartMan releases a full upgrade for its Guidelines 2010 compliant training system. It now includes a number of new training exercises to help retrain those trained under the previous guidelines.

For example it provides the user with full 2.5" and over ALSO notifies you when you hit the bottom. It now provides details on the Duty Cycle as cited in the new guidelines.

This upgrade provides new training activities to tackle problem areas in ventilations. There are also special real time activities to teach the professional to slow down when ventilating with a BVM and how to release the BVM properly.

CPR Performance Results in Germany and Austria
2011-05-12 Research Presented at RettMobile 2011

Blind tests of EMT's and Paramedics' CPR skills were measured using SmartMan. Results show that performance levels fall far below what is required for optimal value to victims. These results are consistent with those found in studies conducted on similar groups in the USA. More on Rettmobile here.

SMARTMAN AWARD FOR BEST CPR
2011-03-02 SmartMan Award to Sussex County EMS (DE)

CONGRATULATIONS on a job well done. Team Sussex County EMS are winners of the 2011 JEMS Games Clinical Competition. Ambu SmartMan was awarded to the winning team.

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BEST CPR

SmartMan Releases Guidelines 2010 Version
2011-02-11 Upgrade Solution for all SmartMan Systems

SmartMan releases training software to meet the new guidelines. It is the first system to directly address the changes required in the new guidelines. This includes the need to push the chest deeper and faster.

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AIRWAY SMARTMAN INNOVATION
2010 AWARD
2010-11-10 Airway SmartMan named for innovation award

AMBU'S AIRWAY SMARTMAN continues to be recognized for its excellence in CPR skills training.

Airway SmartMan brings to ALS training, the same real time feedback and at-a-glance understanding that made the original basic skills SmartMan.

It provides a training module to improve the speed and accuracy of intubating a victim.

Unique to Airway SmartMan is a system to train you to provide optimal ventilations to an intubated victim. The requires timing the ventilations with release of the chest compressions.

In addition, the Airway SmartMan system also includes the ability to train and measure BLS chest compressions and ventilations. Read more here.  

AIRWAY SMARTMAN HOT PRODUCT AWARD
2010-06-10 Airway SmartMan named hot product

AMBU'S AIRWAY SMARTMAN already recognized as an important new product for 2010.

Unique to this system is the real time feedback while you perform ALS CPR. No other system will train you to time the ventilations with release of chest compressions.

In addition, the Airway SmartMan system also includes the ability to train and measure BLS chest compressions and ventilations. Read more here.  

AIRWAY SMARTMAN RELEASED
2010-03-08 Airway SmartMan Brings real time feedback to ALS CPR Training.

Ambu Airway SmartMan was officially released at the EMS Expo in Baltimore the first week of March 2010. It features real time feedback for whether the airway device is correctly placed, whether there is leakage, and how long it has taken to insert and attain an effective seal.

And for the first time you get real time feedback so you can learn to correctly time your breaths on an intubated victim with the release of the chest. Read more here.  

SMARTMAN AWARD FOR BEST CPR
2010-03-08 SmartMan Awarded to Team Cape Fear

CONGRATULATIONS on a job well done. Team Cape Fear are winners of the 2010 JEMS Games Clinical Competition. Ambu SmartMan was awarded to the winning team. Click here to see photos and more on the final scenarios.  

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CONGRATULATIONS

Larry Smith
Dave Cuddeback Brian Pearce
Lee Westbrook

SMARTMAN IMPROVES SURVIVAL RATES
2010-01-07 SmartMan Plays Important Role in Improved Survival Rates
SmartMan training can play an important role as part of any EMS system’s effective response to Sudden Cardiac Arrest. The SmartMan Real-time CPR Feedback Training Manikin system;

• Develops competence and confidence to perform better CPR.
• Makes it possible for everyone to improve their CPR skills
• Makes a real difference to patients
• More than doubled the number of SCA survivors in Ventura County CA over the past 6 months ( survivors are considered to be those who were cognitively awake and able to return to their families! ).
  

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• “SmartMan allows objective evaluation of skills and when used as a training remedy, first-responders improved their skills from 20% to 80% correct CPR performance.”

Ventura County EMS was “delighted to report on this success, and hoped that is might give others thoughts on how to look at their EMS systems.”  They found that “improving CPR made the difference” and “it would be hard to find an EMS Quality Improvement effort that could do better.”

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TOP EMS INNOVATION OF THE YEAR AWARD
09-10-06 EMS Innovation of the Year
SmartMan was awarded a top innovation of the year award in November 2009. The award recognizes the unique development and contribution to some area of EMS.

" The acquisition and utilization of real-time training data is incredible. Colored bar graphs display the rate, depth and chest recoil level for compressions, along with feedback on the rate and volume of ventilations and the time interval in between. You can easily print the results and hand them to the student to review, make changes and prepare for the next round of CPR practice. "

Of course, quality training starts with quality training tools, and the SmartMan from Ambu SmartMan is one of the most outstanding CPR training tools I've ever worked with. " Mike Smith Link to full article Link more to EMS Responder

It was given out at the EMS Expo Conference in Dallas Texas.

SMARTMAN IMPROVES USE OF BVM
09-10-06 SmartMan Announcement - SmartMan BVM Training Improves Skills.pdf.

BVM use and ventilation performance is often far below optimal. Often people provide too much pressure on inspiration and therefore the air goes into the stomach instead of the lungs. Also during rescue breathing there is a tendency to provide more than 3 times the number recommended by the AHA guidelines. Hi regurgitation rates and improved condition of the victim would be consequences of improving this situation

An independent research project was designed to directly address this situation. Through a brief training on SmartMan, EMTs and paramedics were able to dramatically improve their delivery of inspiration. This research is another confirmation that SmartMan's visual real time feedback works with people in the field.

Specifically the study shows that with just minutes of practice on SmartMan, EMTs and paramedics improved their performance substantially. Correct duration of inspiration increased from 34% to 80%, and volume of inspiration and ventilation rate improved to 93%.  

SKILLS PERFORMANCE STANDARDS SET WITH SMARTMAN
09-06-01 SmartMan Announcement - Fire Department Sets Objective Skills Standard.pdf

A Fire Department with more than 600 people with a duty to act, use Ambu SmartMan to train and test CPR skill levels. Each person was given a refresher on CPR and then got to practice on SmartMan with feedback. They were then tested on 1 person CPR.

Based on the accurate objective recording of SmartMan they set a skill performance standard for everyone. During the leaning phase, many people were surprised that they had to change their habits even though they had gone through retraining many times over the years.

Having accurate feedback allowed them to set a skills performance standard. With a focus on a specific level, people rose to the challenge and often exceeded the requirement.

EMS AGENCY REQUIRES OBJECTIVE SKILLS EVALUATION
09-04-20 SmartMan Announcement - EMS Requires SmartMan Testing April 2009.pdf. EMS agency in California establishes a requirement that all EMT certification applicants, regardless of which training organization has trained them and regardless of which CPR card they are holding, be objectively tested to demonstrate their CPR skills before being issued a certification.

SMARTMAN IMPROVES COMPRESSIONS
09-03-09 Clinical Study Shows SmartMan Improves CPR Skills.pdf.

The first clinical trial using SmartMan shows that its innovative bar graphs displayed in real time on a computer work as student press on the chest is an effective way to improve chest compression.

84 on-duty EMS personnel were tested on SmartMan. The first bar is their average score when the program began. With a debriefing based on a SmartMan report they improved to 44%. With the real time visual feedback the scores shot up.

Average chest compression performance scores go from 20% without SmartMan, to 44% with a debriefing with the SmartMan report, and 77% when they used the SmartMan real-time feedback.

SMARTMAN ACCEPTED INTO CARDIAC CARE RESEARCH
09-03-09 SmartMan Features in CPR Cardiac Arrest Research.pdf.
A discussion of what we have learned about cardiac arrest and the important role that CPR can play in improved outcomes. This paper specifically calls for feedback-enhanced CPR and improved training.

SMARTMAN LEADING THE WAY BACK TO BASIC CPR
09-02-27 SmartMan in Back to Basic CPR-The Need For Objective Evaluation.pdf.
This paper contains a review of the current science, a discussion of performance evaluation, and survival outcomes.

It concludes with an argument for objective evaluation to be a part of all CPR certification.

GRADES 8-9 LEARN CPR ON SMARTMAN
09-02-04 SmartMan CPR Training for Grade 8-9 Students.pdf.

Grade 8 and 9 students receive their first lesson in CPR on SmartMan. Each student is taught the basics and gets a chance to practice on SmartMan. They see the colorful bar graph and are coached to try to get the bright green bars.

5 hours later, students were blind tested. The study shows that:

"after just a few minutes they learned CPR as well as studies have shown healthcare professional perform."