ExAC Trainer model for rural low-income regions

Four future development engineers at Halmstad University in Sweden have initiated the first steps towards a more robust model of the ExAC Trainer.

While the manikin is well functioning in urban areas and middle- to high income regions of the world, the lack of infrastructure in rural low-income regions poses challenges for continual and strategic training. Charging batteries, repair possible damages or replace strained and broken parts can be difficult. Consequently, the ExAC Trainer needs to adapt to different social realities in order to be effective in training and maintaining skills in external aortic compression.

Therefore, the four students have been given the challenge to propose solutions for a user-friendly and fully functional ExAC Trainer model without battery or electrical pump and to an affordable price for local health authorities and NGO´s.

From left: Vilgot Hallgren, Sofia Blaxmo, Oscar Kjellberg and Yashar Asadzadeh

We are of course very inspired by the energy and devotion the students are showing and will of course be present at the presentation of the results by the end of December!