Cats Tormented and Pigs Stabbed in the Heart at University of Michigan, please send one message

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From PETA

BACKGROUND

Documents recently obtained by PETA reveal that the University of Michigan’s (UM) Survival Flight course for nurses has been tormenting live cats and pigs in cruel and deadly medical-training exercises, even though UM already uses state-of-the-art human-patient simulators to teach all but one of the same skills in other courses for nurses and physicians.

Cats—who in the past have been purchased by UM from animal shelters—have a hard plastic tube repeatedly forced down their delicate windpipes for intubation training and are frequently killed after the procedure. Pigs have holes cut into their throats and chests and are stabbed in the heart for trauma training exercises before they are killed.

Studies by leading medical experts have repeatedly found that in addition to saving animals, the use of simulators and human cadavers is superior to the use of animal labs for preparing trainees to perform lifesaving skills such as those taught in UM’s Survival Flight course. The American College of Surgeons and the American Heart Association recommend the use of simulators to teach these skills as well.

MESSAGE TEXT

I was dismayed to learn that the University of Michigan still mutilates and kills cats and pigs in a Survival Flight course even though other courses for nurses and physicians at the university teach all but one of the same procedures by using modern, educationally superior human-patient simulators.

To continue harming animals for this training when the university already owns simulators and have deemed them to be superior to the use of animals is unjustifiable.

I urge you to please act swiftly to end these cruel cat and pig labs.

Thank you.

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