Airway

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    Airway

Airway functionality and features

The following skills and procedures can be performed

  • Head tilt / chin lift
  • Jaw thrust with articulated jaw
  • Cricoid pressure and manipulation

If the tongue fallback feature is enabled, head tilt, chin lift and jaw thrust is required to open the airways.

  • Bag-mask ventilation
    Warning: Do not provide artificial respiration to the patient simulator using oxygen enriched air or flammable gases.
  • Laryngeal mask insertion (Size 4, but size 5 may also seal correctly)
  • Orotracheal intubation (Size ID 7.5 Size ID 7.5 is recommended)
  • Nasotracheal intubation
  • Transtracheal intubation

Needle / Surgical Cricothyrotomy

Vocal sounds include coughing, moaning, screaming and spoken words. These can be heard from the head speaker in the manikin.

Patient simulated features may be activated

  • Tongue swelling via LLEAP software

The following Patient Simulator features indicate incorrect tube placement:

  • Right main stem intubation – unilateral chest rise
  • Oesophageal intubation - stomach distention

The following information is automatically registered in the ALS Simulator session log

  • Detection of head tilt, chin lift and jaw thrust
  • CPR started; stopped
  • Ventilation started; stopped
  • Palpation of carotid, brachial and radial pulses
  • Manual NBP performed
Simmom LMA Insertion
Simmom ETT Insertion