title: Battlefield tracheal intubation training using virtual simulation: a multi center operational assessment of video laryngoscope technology.
abstract: Airway management is an essential skill in providing care in trauma situations. The video laryngoscope is a tool which offers improvement in teaching airway management skills and in managing airways of trauma patients on the far forward battlefield. An Operational Assessment (OA) of videolaryngoscope technology for medical training and airway management was conducted by the Center for Advanced Technology and Telemedicine (at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE) for the US Air Force Modernization Command to validate this technology in the provision of Out of OR airway management and airway management training in military simulation centers. The value for both the training and performance of intubations was highly rated and the majority of respondents indicated interest in having a video laryngoscope in their facility.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198-4455, USA. bboedeker@unmc.edu
authors.forename: Ben H
authors.initials: BH
authors.lastname: Boedeker
authors.forename: Kirsten A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Boedeker
authors.forename: Mary A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Bernhagen
authors.forename: David J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Miller
authors.forename: Timothy
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Lacy
mesh_terms: D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction / Q000379:methods*; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D006801:Humans; D007442:Intubation, Intratracheal / Q000295:instrumentation*; D020704:Laryngoscopes; D008348:Manikins; D008887:Military Medicine / Q000193:education* / Q000295:instrumentation*; D009329:Nebraska; D014584:User-Computer Interface; D014741:Video Recording / Q000295:instrumentation*