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Post by Manikin Skywalker on Jan 21, 2014 19:43:21 GMT
well, we're developing a difficult intubation add-on for our HPS simulator. Normally we would use airway occlusion, laryngospasm and tongue swelling to facilitate a difficult intubation but due to the tongue repeatedly puncturing we decided to look at something else. currently developing an airway occluder to the front of the trachea but it needs a bit of fine tuning, but just wondered if anyone out there has developed something similar for a METI simulator or other simulator and cares to share?
We will post our pics and findings once we have a reliably working reusable model.
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Post by Manikin Skywalker on Jan 24, 2014 22:42:31 GMT
well proof of concept done, it appears to work. Next step, fine tune the prototype and start using in scenarios. i feel another abstract submission coming along  |
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Post by Manikin Skywalker on Jan 28, 2014 23:57:54 GMT
abstract submission done, will work up a word document to share here, might be something that can be used on other manikins or even adapted for something totally different
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Post by Manikin Skywalker on Feb 20, 2014 12:29:31 GMT
so this abstract was accepted for the upcoming SCSN ASPiH Symposium, so i guess after I've presented that i'll post details of this simple idea here
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Post by Princess Lae-rdal on Feb 20, 2014 12:37:50 GMT
Looking forward to hearing about it.
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Post by Manikin Skywalker on Apr 25, 2014 13:18:30 GMT
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Post by Manikin Skywalker on Jun 15, 2014 18:01:00 GMT
so lots of interest in the device/add-on, excited that CAE took an interest in it too. seems a common problem with HPS users and the device will be replicated on HPS manikins and possibly intubation heads, by centre staff throughout Europe
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Post by Manikin Skywalker on Jul 1, 2014 14:57:37 GMT
so here's a snapshot from the video we shot yesterday, with 2 images side by side, the left image is the view whilst intubating HPS under normal conditions, the image on the right is the view whilst attempting to intubate HPS with our difficult intubation device installed and active  |
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Post by Manikin Skywalker on Jul 8, 2014 12:14:44 GMT
now it's time to expand and see if we can adapt this concept to work on airway management trainers too, looks highly likely, supply of bouncy balls arrived today, guess what i'm doing tomorrow ?  |
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Post by Princess Lae-rdal on Jul 29, 2014 15:23:26 GMT
I'd love to try this in the airway management trainers. Let us know how you get on.
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Post by Manikin Skywalker on Aug 14, 2014 8:24:49 GMT
might need a bit more work, when i took ours apart the airway was ruptured, we knew we had a leak but the sections of airway were coming apart from each other, purely down to age and use i think.
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