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University project uses the Wii to teach CPR photo

Wii mods aren’t just for
Moving metal arms of doom.
They can teach stuff, too.

BioMed students
Have a program that shows how
To use CPR.

Waggle teaching life
Saving techniques? That’s madness!
Though still kind of cool.

The AHA can
Dig it: They’ve pledged fifty grand
To see it finished.

The project “could be”
Completed sometime this fall
As a free download.

I have to wonder
How good this training could be;
Better than nothing?


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14 comments | showing # 1 to 14

elem08's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/14/2009 01:11
elem08
Nice.
elem08's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/14/2009 01:12
elem08
Interesting read.
Hard to count the syllables?
It sure was for me.
garison's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/14/2009 01:22
garison
I wish I was more
Creative so I could write
better poems. Fuck.
JsunKW's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/14/2009 01:28
JsunKW
All that is missing now is a Wii defibrillator.
ZeroTolo's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/14/2009 01:36
ZeroTolo
I hate to be the litfag here, but classical haiku typically contain some sort of reference to nature and the seasons.

Yeah, I just shit on everything.
Barcode's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/14/2009 01:51
Barcode
It's not the same as doing it all on a dummy. Trust me, I've been through the EMT-B classes and have to deal with dummies all the time. Nothing beats the real thing, but a dummy works fine. Try to calibrate the wimmote to calculate whether or not you're pushing hard enough and using the right form you need is simply impossible.
Double J's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/14/2009 01:51
Double J
Another haiku
At late night, always awesome
Where's the dishwasher?
Zantetsuken's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/14/2009 03:45
Zantetsuken
Casual waggalan
Too much shovelware exists
Apart from Madworld
Chronic Logic's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/14/2009 03:50
Chronic Logic
Another haiku, really now.
whormongr's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/14/2009 09:02
whormongr
@JsunKW don't you mean a wiifibrillator
wanderingpixel's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/14/2009 09:27
wanderingpixel
But where is the CPR dummy peripheral?
IV Backstab MC's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/14/2009 09:27
IV Backstab MC
Omg if they stopped playing videogames and used cpr on real people they could save lots more people! No but really they could probably make something a lot better than waggle live saving technuiqes I imagine someone dying and the paramedic is rrachin for his nunchukas
Cataract's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/14/2009 09:45
Cataract
I don't like this at all. I've been CPR and First Aid certified for about 4 years now, and using a Wii remote in the place of a practice dummy isn't a good idea at all. On a dummy, you learn the resistance of a human chest by feeling how far to push in for every resuscitation. On a Wii remote, you won't feel that, you won't know any of it.

I guess what really irritates me is that the AHA, American Heart Association, is funding this. They should know better than to stand behind shit like this, as it makes healthcare and general look like a joke when we're using toys as training devices for learning how to save lives.

When it comes down to it, and a loved one needs help, do you want to rely on someone who waved a Wii Remote in the air, or someone who worked with a replica of a human body, and knows what to expect when doing resuscitations? I know I'd choose the latter.
Projectexodus's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/14/2009 12:13
Projectexodus
Dibs on the dark-haired girl!
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