Instructor Preparation - Online Blended Part 1
Course Content
- Instructor preparation and update course introduction
- FAW Blended Part One Introduction and Regulations
- The Human Body
- First Aid the Initial Steps
- Asking permission and consent to help
- Calling the Emergency Services
- What3Words - location app
- Waiting for the E.M.S to arrive
- Scene Safety
- Chain of Survival
- DRcABCDE approach
- Using gloves
- How to use face shields
- Hand Washing
- Waterless hand gels
- Initial Assessment and Recovery Position
- BSi First Aid Kit
- Cardiac Arrest and Heart Conditions
- Adult CPR Introduction
- RCUK & ERC Resus Guidelines
- Heart Attack
- Heart Attack Position
- Aspirin and the Aspod
- Respiration and Breathing
- Pulse Points
- When to call for assistance
- Three Steps to Save a Life (2025)
- Adult CPR
- Effective CPR
- Improving breaths
- Improving compressions
- Compressions Only CPR
- CPR Hand Over
- Seizures and Cardiac Arrest
- Drowning
- AED Introduction
- Using an AED - brief overview and demonstration
- Choking Management
- Bleeding Control
- Catastrophic Bleeding
- Why is this Training Now Required?
- Prioritising first aid
- Bleeding assessment
- Blood Loss - A Practical Demonstration
- Hemostatic Dressing or Tourniquet?
- Tourniquets and Where to Use Them
- Types of Tourniquets
- Improvised Tourniquets
- When Tourniquets Don't Work - Applying a Second
- Hemostatic Dressings
- Packing a Wound with Celox Z Fold Hemostatic Dressing
- The Woundclot range
- How Does Woundclot Work
- Woundclot features
- Woundclot and direct pressure
- Packing a wound with Woundclot
- Woundclot and knife injuries
- Woundclot and large areas
- Shock and Spinal Injury
- Injuries
- Secondary Care Introduction
- Injury Assessment
- Strains and Sprains and the RICE procedure
- Adult fractures
- Splints
- Dislocated Shoulders and Joints
- Types of head injury and consciousness
- Eye Injuries
- Foreign object in the eye
- Burns and burn kits
- Treating a burn
- Blister Care
- Electrical Injuries
- Abdominal Injuries
- Chest Injuries
- Heat emergencies
- Cold emergencies
- Dental Injuries
- Bites and stings
- Treating Snake Bites
- Splinters
- Illness
- Introduction to Paediatric and Adult First Aid
- Paediatric CPR and Choking
- Specific Paediatric Conditions
- How to use an AED
- Extra Subjects to allow you to teach specialist courses
- Teaching Equipment
- Summary
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We are now going to look at Manikin Hygiene. Now, manikins are your shop window. When people are using the manikins, they want to see a clean manikin. They also want to know that you are keeping them clean. The first thing we do, looking between with the manikins when you are traveling with them and storing them, always put them back in their bag so we can keep them nice and clean. Also, look at the outside. You want to make sure that the outside of the manikin has been kept clean as well. You will get marks on them as they put AED pads on them, or generally their dirty hands onto the manikins. They will start to get marks. You will also start seeing marks on the back where they are resting on the floor. So within just the visual outside of the manikin, just make sure that that is kept clean. Just be careful what you use. Look at the manufacturer's instructions. You don't want to use anything corrosive or it is going to cause a problem with the actual structure of the manikin on the appearance. One thing with CPR is some people use gloves. Some people don't use gloves when doing the training, but you actually get your students to wear gloves when they are doing the training. Not only is this good practice because they ideally should be doing it, but also it's less greasy hands all over your manikin. So again, they can keep them a little bit cleaner. And when they are doing mouth to mouth, then they can go straight down onto the manikin. Now if they are doing that, then you need to make sure in between students, then this is kept it clean and hygienic. You can do that in different ways. You can use manikin wipes. Use just a drum of manikin wipes and every student can clean around the mouth and inside the mouth. Don't forget inside the mouth. Pop the manikin wipe over your finger and just go right inside to make sure that's all nice and clean. The last you want to do is have build up of dirt and mold in inside the mouth of the manikin. So in between students get them to clean the manikins up. Also have a bin available. So if they are using the wipes, they can take the manikin wipes and throw them straight in the bin. Saves the job for you and also makes sure it keeps clean. The other way is stopping them doing this in the first place. So you can use things like this box here. There's designs of these is a manikin face shield. Just pop that over. Again, this is good practice because if they are doing it for real, ideally they should use a barrier. But sometimes it's harder, especially if people are learning using these for the first time. But you can also use pocket masks. These masks also come through in little sachets, so you can have one per student on the course. So sometimes it's quite a good little giveaway to have a training pack. We sell these little training packs. They get a dressing in there, a triangular bandage and a face shield and some gloves. So everyone goes away with the thing that they have used. Again, for hygiene reasons, it's great because they take away what's been on their mouth. They usually just simply open up the packet and start using. And the manikin wipe she showed you, they are also available in sachet form. Again, each person have one of these. They just rip it out. And this particular one here does have all the instructions in the back on how to actually use them, although they are pretty straightforward. So with the manikin itself, there's another way of keeping this clean. And that would be to use the manikin like this. This is the PractiMan advanced. The same feature is on the standard PractiMan manikin where you can actually take the entire face off. So you would buy the manikins and then you would buy some additional faces so that each student has their own face. You then get these to put into a bowl or into a bag at the end of the lesson, take those home and you can then sterilise these in Milton and then reuse them again. So at the start of every course you have a clean bag and a dirty bag of faces and you just keep those faces nice and clean, and it's always a good from your course point of view because people are seeing you take the hygiene seriously. So if they take these out of a nice Ziploc bag and they remove them nice and safely and cleanly, it makes it that bit better that your course is better than the last course they went on. Similar feature is on the Brad manikin. And with this you have a mouthpiece, and each student would have their own mouthpiece, and also both of these manikins have one-way valves in them. So when you blow the air in here or into here, it goes in this way and it expels out the back of the head, because the problem with all other manikins is the air you blow in is then exhaled out. So if someone's got a cold or there's bugs and they are being blown into the lungs, all that air is just being blown back out over the face of the manikin. So the Brad or the PractiMan standard or advanced have the feature of one way air valve and also removable faces or mouthpieces in this case. Brad manikin is more expensive, but it's a good, solid manikin. Advantage of the PractiMan is that this manikin can be a child manikin, but also an adult manikin. There's a switch on the back set between child and adult. And also a clicker. So you can even turn that clicker off. So at the end of your course, you can take the faces off. In this example, you can clean those. This manikins also has a valve here. So what you can do is you can remove the head of the manikin just by clipping it at the bottom. You can expose it here where you can then pull off the lung bag. So the lung comes away and then the hole of the mouthpiece section comes away and again, you can pop that after the course to be sterilised as well. Once that's done, you can then keep those clean in a nice, clean bag. Earlier I spoke about the exhaled air and this is where the exhaled air comes out of. So it's always a good idea to keep the valves clean and you can buy spares of these. The main structure of the head of the manikin. Well, as the, all the air's going through here there's not really anything here that's going to be any potential infection risk. You may just want to make sure it's visually clean and wipe it over to make sure it's clear. These manikins, like most manikins will have a skin that you can just peel off. With here there's little clips on the side and you peel the skin back and then you can remove the old lung bag and then put a new lung bag in. When you take these old lung bags out and throw them away, then just destroy them there. You can typically with these bags, it's a good idea to change them between courses to make the maximum effective infection control. And you just buy these separately. This particular one has got a self adhesive tab there. So you literally just pull the tab off and you stick it onto the circle here and that holds the lung in place. Because if you're using this regularly and you're opening and closing the airway, sometimes the lung bags will shift and when they do shift, it means sometimes the air won't go in. So once you've secured the, put the lung bag in. Secure the bag in, start with peel the skin back over. Make sure you lock the skin in place just with the little tabs on the side. Once they are on there, the whole manikin is then secure and then take the head, pop the valve back in, make sure that's secured in place. You hear two clicks. So once you put the lung bag on, just literally hook the lungs over on the side here so that you can clip the head back into place. Two clicks there, take the face, pop the face over the top. And the advanced manikin just has two lungs on the side and also a secure lung at the top. And the standard one does have a couple more fixed things, just to make sure that's in place. And then the manikin is ready to use again. Now there are lots of different types of manikins out there. They have lots of different airway systems, but changing the lungs is fairly a standard on them. If you had a manikin which doesn't have the removable faces, then you are looking at disinfecting the entire airway system, which takes a little bit more time, and if you're working with things like this, which is the advanced QCPR manikin, then there are a lot more complicated ways you need to disinfect. So we've put download instructions for the this range of manikins and some other on the instructor area on the blog, on the website but you do need to make sure you follow those. Now finally, it's all very well having all these manikins and doing all this, but you also need to document it. So again, in the download area, there's a standard sheet you can have as a Manikin Hygiene record sheet. So every time you run a course, just write in the date of the course, write the number on the back of every manikin so you know which they are and you can simply put in there that manikin number three was used on this course is ticker box to say it's been cleaned and also to say that you changed the lungs and also any other things that need doing with it. Maybe something's got damage or torn or whatever that you need to do differently with it. So at least you've got a absolute record of hygiene that if anything happened later on and if someone did accuse you of having dirty manikins or catching some of a manikin or anything like that, you've got proof in your files to prove that you've kept your manikins nice and clean and safe.
Manikin Hygiene: Ensuring Cleanliness and Safety
Understanding the Importance of Clean Manikins
Manikins serve as the shop window for many businesses. The first impression is vital, and thus, ensuring a clean appearance is paramount. Not only do customers want to see a spotless manikin, but they also appreciate the knowledge that hygiene measures are in place.
General Manikin Maintenance
When transporting and storing, always place manikins in their protective bags to maintain cleanliness. It's not just the obvious areas; marks often appear on manikins, be it from AED pads, dirty hands, or merely resting on the floor. It's crucial to ensure the manikin's exterior remains clean, but always be cautious with the cleaning products used. Always refer to the manufacturer's instructions to avoid using corrosive agents that might harm the manikin's structure.
Training Best Practices
- Encourage students to wear gloves during CPR training. This not only promotes best practice but also ensures less grease transfer onto the manikin.
- After each student performs mouth-to-mouth, ensure the manikin's mouth area is sanitised. Manikin wipes can be useful for this purpose. Never neglect the inside of the mouth – this is vital to prevent dirt and mould build-up.
- Make disposal bins available for used wipes. This encourages cleanliness and reduces the instructor's cleanup workload.
- Consider using manikin face shields or pocket masks to reduce direct contact. These can also serve as handy giveaways in training packs.
Advanced Cleaning Measures
Some manikins, like the PractiMan advanced, allow for the face to be completely removed. This feature enables thorough cleaning and sterilisation of the face after each use. On starting a course, you can differentiate between clean and used faces, demonstrating a commitment to hygiene. This feature is also present in the Brad manikin, which offers individual mouthpieces for each student.
Advanced Manikin Features
- Both PractiMan and Brad manikins come equipped with one-way valves. This ensures that air blown in does not get exhaled back, minimising the spread of infections.
- The PractiMan can be adjusted to simulate both a child and an adult and features a 'clicker' that can be toggled on or off.
- The Brad manikin, although more expensive, is robust and reliable.
Cleaning and Replacing the Airway System
For manikins without removable faces, disinfecting the entire airway system is crucial. Advanced models like the QCPR manikin require more intricate cleaning processes. Detailed instructions are available on the instructor's blog and website.
Documentation: Keeping a Record
It's essential to document cleaning practices. Consider maintaining a Manikin Hygiene record sheet. This can help track which manikins were used on which dates, ensuring they were cleaned, and noting if lung replacements were conducted. Proper documentation serves as evidence of thorough hygiene practices should any issues arise in the future.
