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Case Studies
Ruth lee manikins helping to facilitate safe patient handling and mobility (SPHM) training in the US
The desire to help people by providing outstanding care is why you became a healthcare professional in the first place. Maintaining the dignity of your patients is important, as is maintaining your own health and well-being when carrying out your duties. Healthcare...
“PTE Ryan” Training Lifeguards To Save Surfers In Scottish Seas With Aberdeen Slsc
Scotland's rugged coastline and tumultuous seas are renowned for their beauty, but also for their danger. The unpredictable weather and strong currents make Scottish waters a challenging environment for even the most experienced swimmers and surfers. In fact, the seas...
Healthcare Innovation Experts Melior Motus Using Manikins To Train Users
The design of new, innovative equipment can lead to efficiencies in the healthcare system, while also helping deliver outstanding patient care. Ruth Lee Ltd was therefore excited to supply a Patient Handling Manikin to Canadian-based equipment designers Melior...
“Undoubtedly the best childlike manikin I have had the pleasure to train with…”
At Ruth Lee we are committed to making products that help people to train more effectively. For us, it is about helping trainers to create more realistic training scenarios, which closely mirror what their teams might face in real life. Improved training leads to...
“In our opinion, the Ruth dummy is a revolution in the field of rescue!”
Creating realistic casualties for training has always been our goal – so when a lifeguard in Canada approached us to design a manikin which would allow her to set up complete start-to-finish rescues, without switching between an unrealistic half-torso and volunteers,...
Canadian Fire Service First to use Patient Handling Manikin in RTC Training
Niagara West Fire (Niagara, Canada) have become the first fire service in the world to own a Patient Handling manikin, after Canadian photographer Mitchell Brown kindly chose to donate his photo competition prize to the service earlier this year. Mitchell was one of...
NHS Trust uses manikins to level up moving and handling training
Before the pandemic, just like NHS Trusts up and down the country, Simon Themba, Moving and Handling Lead at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT), used volunteers in his training to represent patients. When social distancing was introduced, all...
Dog handlers using manikins to ‘enhance training and give new team members confidence and skills’
Dogs being used in search and rescue missions can be dated back to the late 1800s where they were often deployed by monks living in the snowy, dangerous St. Bernard Pass - a route through the Alps between Italy and Switzerland – to rescue lost travellers or those...
World-Leading Training Provider Uses Manikins in New State Of The Art Facility
For over 100 years, MRS Training & Rescue (formerly known as Mines Rescue Service), has developed specialist skills, experience and knowledge gained from working in difficult and potentially dangerous environments, to affect the rescue and escape of mine workers...
Crantock Surf Life Saving Club comes back from lifeguard shortage through training with manikins!
It’s absolutely no secret that the world of training was turned on it’s head in 2020. Training to save lives suddenly became near impossible due to social distancing restrictions and the need to keep trainees and volunteers safe from COVID-19. Beach lifeguard training...
Patient Handling Training with a Manikin – No going back to using people in training
No going back to using people in training sessions The Coronavirus pandemic impacted the training techniques of safe patient handling. At the start of Covid restrictions, it became clear that using staff to play the role of the patient needed to be reviewed to comply...
“…It simply takes your training program and brings it to the next level.”
Creating the most realistic manikins for your training has always been our goal – from the very first manikin created by Ruth herself when a friend and firefighter bought her what was essentially a sack filled with sand with the plea to repair it for his training!...