AirSim Difficult Airway

Adult intubation head trainer provides a solution for varying degrees of difficulty when practicing airway management. This versatile model ranges from challenging to very difficult to intubate, facilitating a variety of training scenarios from beginner to advanced users .

The AirSim Difficult Airway has been designed to improve management of the unanticipated difficult intubation in accordance with the Difficult Airway Society guidelines.

Model Features

Difficult Airway

• The internal airway has an enlarged tongue, swollen posterior cartilages and an elongated epiglottis to provide a challenging airway management user experience.

Laryngospasm

• Adjustable from normal to complete airway obstruction.
• Sudden closure of the vocal cords can be simulated.
• Upon successful user action, laryngospasm can be mechanically reversed to provide positive feedback

Displaced larynx

• Ability to displace the larynx into a more anterior position to make visualisation of the vocal cords more challenging.
• Adjustable to provide various levels of difficulty.

Tongue Edema

•  The tongue can be swollen to simulate various degrees of tongue angioedema. 

Receding / protruding Mandible

• Various degrees of malocclusion, one mandibular variant and two maxillary variants. 
• Overbite and underbite features simulated

Trismus

• Ability to grossly restrict mouth opening to make insertion of airway devices more challenging

Neck lock / Head rotation restriction

• Ability to simulate cervical arthropathy through restricting the range of motion of cervical spine
• Neck lock / Head rotation restriction

Simulate needle and surgical cricothyroidotomy and percutaneous tracheostomy.