Advanced Pediatric Airway Trainer for Enhanced Clinical Education in Pediatric Critical Care

项目摘要/摘要 外科人体模型和程序训练器等临床培训辅助工具是 向医生和急救人员传授正确的技术。然而，这些中的大多数 为成人解剖学开发了培训工具。儿科患者往往更具挑战性 用于治疗，但在儿科危重护理教育中用于高级模拟的资源很少。这 对于插管等呼吸道操作尤其明显，因为儿童的呼吸道 与完全发展的成人航空相比，这两种航空公司有显著的不同，也更难处理。由于 使用儿科呼吸道的困难和相对较低的儿科患者流量 医生和急救人员看到，许多急救人员被告知不要尝试插管失败 费率太高了。因此，一种先进的儿科呼吸道训练器可以极大地改善临床 对儿科危重护理进行教育，培训新医生和急救人员，以便 当出现危重儿童时，他们能够成功地实施救命措施。 包括插管。 在这个第一阶段的SBIR项目中，我们将开发一种先进的儿科呼吸道训练器，以改善 儿科危重护理的临床教育。大多数训练用具都是为成人解剖学开发的； 对儿科呼吸道进行建模的选择较少，而现有的选择往往较多 太简单了。该项目的主要目标是设计一种先进的呼吸道训练器， 结合了目前市场上没有的功能，包括模块化功能，以改变 解剖学和难度，结合感知来绘制受训者通过呼吸道的路径，以及 能够将液体合并到呼吸道中，以模拟血液或呕吐时增加的难度 是存在的。我们将构建并测试该设备的关键子系统的原型：A传感器 可以映射喉镜通过呼吸道的路径的模块，以帮助进行适当的训练 技术。我们的团队将共同开发一种先进的呼吸道训练器，它可以直接提供 反馈给受训人员，并采用模块化组件，难以调整，改进 儿科危重护理的教育和培训。

Project Summary/Abstract Clinical training aids such as surgical mannequins and procedural trainers are important tools for teaching proper technique to physicians and first responders. However, the majority of these training tools were developed for adult anatomies. Pediatric patients are often more challenging to treat, but few resources exist for advanced simulation in pediatric critical care education. This is particularly apparent for airway procedures such as intubation, because children's airways are significantly different and more difficult to work with than fully developed adult airways. Due to the difficulty of working with pediatric airways and the relatively low volume of pediatric patients that physicians and emergency personnel see, many EMTs are told not to try intubation as the failure rate is too high. Therefore, an advanced pediatric airway trainer could greatly improve clinical education for pediatric critical care, both for training new physicians and first responders, so that when a critically ill child is presented they are able to successfully perform lifesaving measures including intubation. In this Phase I SBIR project, we will develop an advanced pediatric airway trainer to improve clinical education for pediatric critical care. Most training aids are developed for adult anatomies; there are fewer options for modeling pediatric airways, and those that do exist tend to be much too simple. The primary goal of the project is to design an advanced airway trainer that incorporates features that are not currently on the market, including modular features to vary the anatomy and difficulty, incorporation of sensing to map the trainee's path through the airway, and the ability to incorporate fluids into the airway to simulate the added difficulty when blood or vomit is present. We will build and test a prototype of the key subsystem for this device: a sensing module that can map the path of a laryngoscope through the airway to aid in training proper technique. Together our team will develop an advanced airway trainer that provides direct feedback to the trainee and incorporates modular components for adjustable difficultly, improving education and training for pediatric critical care.