• Thomas A Nicholas, Huiling Pang, Mary A Bernhagen, and Ben H Boedeker.
• Research Service, VA Nebraska-Western Iowa Health Care System, Omaha, NE, USA. tnicholas@unmc.edu
• Stud Health Technol Inform. 2012 Jan 1;173:307-9.

AbstractAirway management of the hemorrhagic airway can be a difficult skill to master as trainee exposure to this difficult airway may be limited. In this study, we employed a hemorrhagic airway simulator along with a videolaryngoscope and the Storz Boedker-Doerges (BD) suction blade. These devices provided improved intubation performance in this model with respect to traditional direct laryngoscope (DL) and VL blades. This study shows that use of a hemorrhagic simulator could be an effective and valuable training tool in difficult airway intubation training.

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