A GENEROUS donation will revive worn and torn resuscitation equipment in a North-East hospital to support training 5,000 clinical staff.

The James Cook University Hospital, in Middlesbrough, has received more than £20,000 from the South Cleveland Heart Fund to revamp and buy new resuscitation manikins used daily by the South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

The equipment is used to support staff training in all aspects of life support and is designed to prepare clinicians to manage medical emergencies for children and adults.

Mark Chamberlain, a resuscitation officer at the Trust, said: “The new advanced paediatric manikins add another level of realism to these simulations which helps to submerse the participants in the event and allows them to practice both technical and non-technical skills.

“The equipment we use was becoming very dated with significant wear and tear, but this donation ensures we will have state-of-the art equipment to deliver high quality training for many years to come.”

The manikins can be used to practice realistic chest compressions for CPR, as well as giving mouth-to-mouth or mouth-to-nose resuscitation.

Dr Adrian Davies, chairman of South Cleveland Heart Fund, added: “Our committee unanimously agreed to purchase this equipment because of the vital teaching in cardiac resuscitation carried out to all staff in the Trust as well as lots of outside organisations.”