SmartMan© Makes a Difference

RESEARCH: Ambu SmartMan© provides accurate records of skills testing. It provides a full data stream for each skill. Research results continue to be published which demonstrate that people who use SmartMan© do perform CPR skills better.

09-06-01 SmartMan Announcement - Fire Department Sets Objective Skills Standard.pdf. Fire Department uses SmartMan to set a skill performance standard for all re-certs.

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.

09-03-09 Clinical Study Shows SmartMan Improves CPR Skills.pdf. The first clinical trial using SmartMan. 84 on-duty EMS personnel are tested on SmartMan. The average 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.

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.

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.

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