WHEN CPR MET MICE!
By Shamama Khan
6 May, 2019
“My friend once asked me, what will I do when her heart stops and she’s about to die? I took it in a jocular way, winked and replied ‘CPR’ but what numbed me next was her question that did I even know how to perform it?”, quotes a team member of the symposium team – The Saving Claw.
Ishani shah and 11 of her team members from 2nd MBBS students of Grant Medical College made up their minds to choose CPR as their symposium topic after days of brainstorming and coming to the conclusion that even though our world is being eaten up by cardiac illnesses and it’s associated problems, people are clueless of this life saving procedure with it’s awareness being a distant dream and it’s practical aspect – a daydream.
It was the time when The symposium team joined hands with M.I.C.E lab (Medical Innovation Creativity and entrepreneurship) where the M.I.C.E lab came forward to lend a helping hand by providing them with a manikin to power the idea of a flash mob and thus this idea was molded in to a reality on 23 November 2018 at Viviana mall in Thane.
“The idea of flash-mob was indeed unique in its place and we would like to share the success of this event with M.I.CE labs which offered us the use of the manikin. We as a team are thankful to the M.I.C.E lab and are proud that this structure exists in our college!”, says Ruchita Wahane, a team member of the symposium team.
The motive behind the flash mob was to educate a huge mass of common men about CPR (Cardio-pulmonary Resuscitation) and how this life saving procedure actually saves lives? The manikin provided by M.I.C.E comes along with a built-in feedback system that gives an accurate data about the rate and depth of the performed CPR. This helps the rescuer to perform it effectively and save lives outruling all the issues regarding lack of confidence, lack of information and the gender bias.
Further on, The symposium team didn’t limit their awareness just to flash mob but also broke their own wall of limits to conduct awareness campaigns in schools and colleges besides organizing a special training session for home-makers as they believe – when you educate a home-maker, you eventually educate the entire family!
To take ahead the word of CPR, M.I.C.E labs along with giving a hand to The saving claw, also took a leap and stepped forward to arrange a five-session course which also included Robotics and CPR in one of the sessions. While the session started off without a clue to the attendees, it ended on a successful note where the students could now perform effective CPR by hands on practice on the manikin and the feedbacks from the feedback system.
“I knew a bit about the procedure of performing CPR through text-books but never had a chance to perform it practically or know if was I doing it correctly. After attending the session on CPR in the M.I.C.E lab, I learnt what it actually was and the session grew me confident about performing it”, quotes Apurva Kothari, an MBBS student.



About the lab:
M. I.C.E lab being an integral part of Grant Government Medical College and J.J. group of hospitals offers a med-tech fusion and grants a blank space in the lab’s brain for young minds to think, scribble and innovate ideas that’ll help future bud in the present as rightly said by Bill Gates,
“The two areas that are changing…are information technology and medical technology. Those are the things that the world will be very different 20 years from on than it is today!”




