I assume by helping normalize them into the mental model of “CPR patient” which overrides all other aspects of social propriety. “Don’t touch boobs without permission” is a big rule so plenty of people are going to have to manually override it in the decision making if you haven’t been desensitized to the fact that some CPR patients have them.
I also suspect that the awkwardness of what to do with them while doing chest compressions is helpful, especially ones big enough to move around as you do them.
We also use male dummies in most tests so try not to need your seat belt or ever need cpr if you are a woman
Yep and that’s still true to this day
I remember reading an article a few months ago that they finally made female crash test dummies.
hmm…
mmm-mmm-mmm-mmm
And God shuffled his feet.
The album name has been burned into my brain just like burn-in on an old LCD happens.
I mean, Ellen Reid joined in the late eighties/early nineties…
Do titties stop CPR working?
People can hesitate because… boobs. And that hesitation can be deadly.
It’s common enough that The Pitt even had this happen to a patient.
The Pitt? The TV show?
Yes, and it’s a great scene.
No, Brad Pitt.
How do dummies with boobs help people concerned about touching unconscious women’s chests
I assume by helping normalize them into the mental model of “CPR patient” which overrides all other aspects of social propriety. “Don’t touch boobs without permission” is a big rule so plenty of people are going to have to manually override it in the decision making if you haven’t been desensitized to the fact that some CPR patients have them.
I also suspect that the awkwardness of what to do with them while doing chest compressions is helpful, especially ones big enough to move around as you do them.
I declined Heimlich practice because my training partner was a particularly large chested female. I was about 23 and her crew leader. She was prob 22.
Nope!
Why? You don’t even touch their boobs or chest?
It would have been difficult not to in this case. And it was in front of a whole bunch of people. I was young and uncomfortable with it. She was too.
“Comfort is more important than safety” is a mindset that gets a lot of people killed.
Understood.