Hartlepool hospital opens brand new clinical skills laboratory

The University Hospital of Hartlepool has launched a new clinical skills laboratory to provide hands-on and interactive learning for its staff.

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00:05 It's very chalky at the moment, so the first thing that we need to do is we're delivering five backflows.

00:11 So you can see there, checking each time, has the object come out?

00:16 Has it come out? No it hasn't.

00:19 No it hasn't. What we need to move on to now, because the object hasn't come out, is we need to move on to the abdominal thrust.

00:25 So I'm going to place my hand underneath the diaphragm here, or the ribcage, lower ribcage,

00:30 and we're going to thrust in and up to remove the object.

00:35 [Sigh]

00:37 Checking each time to see that it's come out, so we don't deliver more than what we need.

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