Contaminated Airway Task Training: How to Adapt an Existing Airway Manikin Head for Active Airway Soiling.

ABSTRACT

The massively contaminated airway is an important and often daunting entity for airway providers. Although massively contaminated airways are considered high acuity, low-occurrence presentations in emergency medicine and pre-hospital settings, formal training in the management of contaminated airways is heterogeneous and infrequent. To facilitate training and augment simulation, an airway task trainer is critical. To our knowledge, this is the first readily accessible, peer-reviewed, detailed technical report to build a low-cost, high-fidelity, contaminated airway task trainer. This trainer can be seamlessly integrated into simulated resuscitation scenarios and/or airway training workshops, reinforcing skill acquisition and retention for the management of the massively contaminated airway.