Chicago Tribune - The fellow in the hospital bed looked pretty poorly. His mouth was frozen in a strange grin and his skin tone was waxy. Rubbery, really.
Rubbery, actually. SimMan 3G was a medical mannequin. Emergency medical technician and simulation specialist Brian Florek was using him to demonstrate a streamlined lifesaving technique — Hands-Only CPR.
"Let me stop him from breathing," said Florek, a statement not normally made by a health care professional in a medical setting.
He fiddled with a laptop attached to Mr. 3G, who was lying in a bed in the Simulation Technology and Immersive Learning lab at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine.
He bent over SimMan, placed one hand on the chest and his other hand on top of it, straightened his arms and began pushing down, fast and hard.
That — after calling 911 — is all it takes to save a life.
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