Beste mensen,
De discussie is een beetje opgedroogd. Toch wilde ik jullie, in het kader van de discussie, de samenvatting van dit interessante artikel, wat deze maand werd gepubliceerd in Anesthesiology, niet onthouden. Het artikel bespreekt de beperkte trainingswaarde van airway management en stelt het oefenen met poppen ter discussie, op grond van de grote discrepantie tussen de kunstmatige anatomie van een pop en de grote afwijkingen met de realiteit aan de hand van vergelijkend CT onderzoek.
Een artikel dat ons dwingt na te denken over deze vorm van training en het verkrijgen van vaardigheden welke worden uitgedrukt in termen van "bekwaamheid".
DEGREES OF REATILYAirway Anatomy of High-fidelity Human Patient Simulators and Airway Trainers
Karl Schebesta, M.D.,* Michael Hupfl, M.D.,† Bernhard Rossler, M.D.,* Helmut Ringl, M.D.,‡ Michael P. Muller, M.D.,§ Oliver Kimberger, M.D.
ABSTRACT Background: Human patient simulators and airway training manikins are widely used to train airway management skills to medical professionals. Furthermore, these patient simulators are employed as standardized “patients” to evaluate airway devices. However, little is known about how realistic these patient simulators and airway-training manikins really are. This trial aimed to evaluate the upper airway anatomy of four high-fidelity patient simulators and two airway trainers in comparison with actual patients by means of radiographic measurements. The volume of the pharyngeal airspace was the primary outcome parameter.
Methods: Computed tomography scans of 20 adult trauma patients without head or neck injuries were compared with computed tomography scans of four high-fidelity patient simulators and two airway trainers. By using 14 predefined distances, two cross-sectional areas and three volume parameters of the upper airway, the manikins’ similarity to a human patient was assessed.
Results: The pharyngeal airspace of all manikins differed significantly from the patients’ pharyngeal airspace. The HPS Human Patient Simulator (METI, Sarasota, FL) was the most realistic high-fidelity patient simulator (6/19 [32%] of all parameters were within the 95% CI of human airway measurements).
Conclusion: The airway anatomy of four high-fidelity patient simulators and two airway trainers does not reflect the upper airway anatomy of actual patients. This finding may impact airway training and confound comparative airway device studies.
What We Already Know about This Topic- Manikins are used for education, training, and research of human airway management, but the fidelity of these airways is typically low
What This Article Tells Us That Is New- Computed tomography scans of the upper airways revealed that the airway dimensions of the manikins significantly differed from those of humans
- Training, education, and research using the manikins should be reconsidered
Anesthesiology 2012; 116:1204–9