Laerdal AirMan Advanced Airway Management Simulators Price Reduction

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.

* Bronchial tree - anatomically accurate in size, color, texture and accurately features the anatomical landmarks necessary to facilitate realistic chest rise and fall.

* Tracheal access can be done through the:

- nose,

- neck, or

- mouth.

* Multiple ALS airway skills

* Laerdal's AirMan simulator is an airway management task trainer mannequin used to teach difficult airway

management.

Features:

* Anatomically realistic with flexible tongue.

* Anatomically realistic arytenoid cartilage.

* Anatomically realistic vallecula.

* Anatomically realistic Epiglottis.

* Anatomically realistic Thyroid Cartilage.

* Anatomically realistic Cricoid Cartilage.

* Anatomically realistic Criothyroid Membrane.

* Anatomically realistic vocal cords.

* Anatomically realistic trachea.

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

* Oral and nasal intubation using direct laryngoscopy with a straight blade or curved blade laryngoscope.

* Orotracheal intubation using a videolarynogscope such as the Airtraq Optical Scope, Glidescope, McGrath Scope or the Pentax AWS Scope.

* Flexible Fiberoptic Intubation using a flexible fibersopce is also possible.

* Rescue Ventilation using the LMA (Laryngeal Mask Airway), Combitube, Easytube, King LT, and Cobra PLA placement.

* RSI Instruciton: Anatomical features allow demonstration of Sellick Maneuver (cricoid pressure) and laryngospasm.

* Cricothyrotomy: Tracheal access through the neck using a surgical technique (cricothyrorotmy) or needle cricothyrotomy or a percutaneous dilational technique using cric kits such as the Melker, Pertrach and others.

Laerdal Airman Simulator is a Realistic and Dynamic Simulator with Remote Controls.