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SimMan Critical Care

Airway and breathing

  • Configurable airways (including tongue edema, pharyngeal swelling, laryngospasm)

  • Head tilt, jaw thrust and chin lift

  • Spontaneous breathing

  • Chest rise and fall

  • An embedded set of lungs, or Advanced Lung Module (ALM), which allows for actual exhalation.

Airway interventions

The airway is anatomically modelled as far as the bronchia and can be manipulated by a learner:

  • Head tilt/Chin lift

  • Jaw thrust with articulated jaw

  • Cricoid pressure and manipulation

  • Simulated suctioning (oral and nasopharyngeal)

NOTE

  • If the tongue fallback feature is enabled, head tilt is required to open the airways for mask ventilations.

The following information is automatically registered in the SimMan CC simulation session:

  • Detection of proper head position

  • Jaw thrust

  • Pneumothorax decompression

  • Ventilations

  • Stomach distension