Fight Night! Are Pricey Manikins Worth It?

EMS 20/20

Christopher M Pfingsten

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4.6 • 775 Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

In the first ever Fight Night episode, Spencer and Chris debate whether or not expensive dummies are worth the cost! Let us know who won!

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome to EMS 2020.
0:02.1	We are not putting a theme song on the front of this one today because this is a different episode.
0:05.8	This is a bonus episode because you guys have been listening and you have been listening a lot and we want to give you guys a little something extra.
0:12.2	So this is the first episode of EMS 2020's fight night.
0:16.5	What's going to happen is we are picking a controversial EMS topic.
0:20.4	Spencer and I are each going to pick
0:21.7	aside, one pro, one against, and we kind of randomly picked those. It's already been picked.
0:26.0	I will be against the topic today. I'll be the anti and Spencer will be the pro. And today's topic
0:31.7	is sim mannequins, the expensive ones. The- I feel like I was supposed to jump in there and say that.
0:40.6	I'm going to, just to make this a fair fight, I started drinking early.
0:45.4	I'm just going to throw that out there.
0:46.9	I've been drinking.
0:47.7	I've been drinking as well.
0:48.7	This is going to be great.
0:51.0	Yeah, basically what we're doing those.
0:52.2	We're talking about those high fidelity mannequins,
0:54.5	the ones that burp, fart, pee, you can check a pulse, and they cost a boatload.
1:00.1	And the question is, or I guess the statement is, is that they are worth the cost, that
1:06.6	they increase the fidelity, they actually increase the fidelity of the training received by EMS responders.
1:13.4	I am saying they do not and they are a waste of the money,
1:16.0	waste of the money and Spencer is defending their use.
1:20.1	That's right.
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