Laerdal AirMan Advanced Airway Trainers

for Training in

Difficult & Emergency Airway Situations

We are offering 8 Laerdal AirMan Trainers which are available her at www.slamairway.com or email us at airman-info@slamairway.com. 

If patient safety, clinical competency and education & training are important to your organization this advanced airway manikin can assist you in meeting your training goals by keeping all staff members current in airway management techniques thereby decreasing liability for your organization with regard to airway management.

Laerdal AirMan is a highly effective training aid for teaching all aspects of difficult and emergency airway management.  It is great for skill maintenance and decision making scenarios using flowchart-based training.  These AirMen are used but have been thoroughly tested to ensure that they are functioning properly.  Each is in very good condition.  They are no longer produced.

Condition of these manikins is very good with no rips or tears in the skin or the airway of the manikins and all dynamic features of each work properly.

Because the manikin has a wired remote control all aspects of the emergency scenario can be controlled by the instructor. 

Examples of Laerdal AirMan's Dynamic Training Qualities Include:

1.  Respiratory rate can be easily stopped, slowed or increased during spontaneous ventilation by simply pushing a

     button on the remote control. 

2.  Oxygen saturation can be changed depending on the clinical situation by clicking on the remote.

3.  Bilateral or unilateral pneumothorax can be easily simulated using the remote.

4.  Trismus (jaw stiffness) can be turned off or on to simulate malignant hyperthermia.

5.  Tongue edema can be turned off or on to simulate anioedema.

6.  C-Spine immobility and stiffness (rigidity) can be turned off or on and assists in teaching how to overcome

     Cormack and Lehane grade 3 laryngoscopic views (epiglottis only) that are common during manual inline

     axial stabilization.

7.   Confirmation of tracheal intubation and monitoring of lung ventilation can be accomplished using a carbon

     dioxide tank-MANIFOLD (NOT INCLUDED) can also be attached to the manikin/compressor unit 

     which can simulate near-failsafe confirmation of tracheal intubation or rescue ventilation using a colorimetric

     carbon dioxide detector (not included) such as those sold by Tyco and Ambu (Ambu Tube check B).

8.  Laryngospasm can be simulated at the touch of a button.

9.  Rapid Sequence Intubation (RSI) instruction is improved because Sellicks Maneuver (cricoid pressure) can be

     taught because the laryngeal cartilages are palpable on the anterior neck surface.

10.  Controlled Manual Ventilation is easily accomplished using a mask or endotracheal tube or supraglottic

       airway.

11.  Laerdal AirMan is also effective for teaching flexible fiberoptic intubation in the spontaneous breathing patient.

12.  Any type of cricothyrotomy technique can be taught using Laerdal AirMan.

13.  Retrograde intubation can also be taught using Laerdal AirMan.

14.  Blind digital intubation can also be taught as well as bougie-assisted blind digital intubation.

15.  McCoy laryngoscopy using a levering laryngoscope works well in the Laerdal AirMan.

16.  Breath sounds can be auscultated using a stethoscope.

Other Valuable Features:

1.  Bougie-Assisted Intubation:  Tracheal clicking and hold up can be elicited using a bougie introducer to confirm

     tracheal placement of the bougie (like it is done in the human being).

2.  External Laryngeal Manipulation (i.e. pressure on the thyroid cartilage) will cause the larynx to move

     and facilitate improvement of the laryngeal view (converting Cormack and LeHane grade 4 view to a grade 3

     view or a grade 3 view to a grade 2 view) during direct laryngoscopy.

3.  BURP:  Backward Upward Rightward Pressure on the thyroid cartilage for improvement of the laryngeal view

     can be done.

4.  Cricothyrotomy (surgical airway) through the cricothyroid membrane can be done using either trans-tracheal

     jet ventilation - percutaneous dilational cricothyrotomy or surgical cricothyrotomy with an endotracheal tube.

5.  Nasotracheal intubation can be readily accomplished using the Laerdal AirMan.

6.  Rescue Ventilation using the EasyTube, Laryngeal Mask Airway, Combitube, King Laryngeal Tube or other

     FDA-approved supraglottic airways can be used to ventilate the Laerdal AirMan.

7.  LMA-Fastrach (intubating LMA) can be used with the Laerdal AirMan.

8.  CPR can be simulated fully including simple airway maneuvers such as head tilt, chin lift and jaw thrust.

9.  The mouth is large enough for practicing bougie-assisted blind digital intubation.

10.  Easily accomodates either an oropharyngeal airway or a nasopharyngeal airway.

Scenario Based Training for all levels and types of practitioners can be done using the Laerdal AirMan:

• Anesthesia,
• Emergency Medicine,
• Prehospital Care [EMS]), and
• Respiratory Care.

* The types of situations and patient responses can be modified so that they are specific to clinical situations

    experienced in Anesthesia, Emergency Medicine, Prehospital Care or Respiratory Care.

* Using the SLAM Universal Adult Airway Flowchart one can simulate airway assessment with the Laerdal AirMan to

    determine if the patient is a candidate for either: 

        - Rapid Sequence Intubation,

        - Difficult Tracheal Intubation,

        - Oxygenation and Ventilation,

        - Rescue Ventilation, or

        - Cricothyrotomy.  

Other Scenario-Based Advantages include:

* If the student is struggling with tracheal intubation the oxygen saturation can quickly be lowered to teach the

    student to switch to a ventilation technique to stabilize the patient before continuing with tracheal intubation. 

*  If the student is not properly mask ventilating the Laerdal AirMan the oxygen saturation can be lowered quickly and

   easily at the touch of a button so that the student must either improve the ventilation technique or switch to

    rescue ventilation.

* If the Laerdal AirMan is breathing spontaneously either room air or with an oxygen mask, the ventilatory rate can be

    slowed or stopped and the oxygen saturation quickly decreased to simulate respiratory arrest to which the

    student must respond rapidly to improve or rescue the clinical situation.

*  Or the patient may quickly develop tongue edema to increase the difficulty of tracheal intubation so that the

    student has to begin rescue ventilation. 

*  Or the patient can be made to sustain a low oxygen saturation due to a simulated pneumothorax that is not

    resolved until the student performs needle decompression.

*  Or during a tracheal intubation attempt the laryngeal view can be degraded so that the student must evaluate the

    problem and choose a rescue intubation technique (such as bougie-assisted intubation, external laryngeal

    manipulation [BURP] or head elevated laryngoscopy position) to intubate the trachea.

*  The situations and scenarios are very dynamic and only limited by the imagination and experience of the

    instructor. 

*  Using the SLAM Universal Adult Airway Flowchart (available from www.slamairway.com  and/or the SLAM:

    Street Level Airway Management Textbook (available at www.slamairway.com) as a guide, the types

    of scenarios are virtually limitless. 

*  Laerdal AirMan offers the capability of presenting a multitude of difficult airway situations with a touch of a button via

    the remote control.

*  Laerdal AirMan helps meet the training needs of difficult airway management for hospital and prehospital care

    providers.  

*  Realistic life-size intubation head with flexible tongue, arytenoid cartilage, vallecula, vocal cords, trachea,

    bronchial tree, esophagus and simulated lungs for spontaneous breathing and realistic chest rise and fall. 

Laerdal AirMan is a Dynamic Interactive Trainer with Remote Controls Whose Application is Only Limited by the Imagination or Experience of the Instructor.